The Genetics of Evil: Are People Born Bad? - Dr Kathryn Paige Harden - #1066

What happened after the publication of your last book? Oh, it was a wild time. I I there was a lot of controversy. There was a lot of pushback. The conversations that I had with real people, not with other academics, but with just people who wrote me, people who, you know, happened to counter the book in some way, that was fantastic.

Um, people wrote me and they said, I've always wondered why I'm so different from my parents or why I'm so different from my siblings. And your work has given me a new way of understanding that. They um wrote to me about their decision to have kids or their decision not to have kids and how thinking about genetics has shaped that. So that part of the conversation, which is the dialogue between an author and their readers, was

Fantastic. I loved that. And then there was another part of the dialogue, which was me with other academics. And that was really surprising to me. Um, in part because I felt like they some people needed to turn me into a villain in order to get their own message out.

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