Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-06-05
Books mentioned on Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Robert explores Dr. Church's weird history with eugenics adjacent projects, like the world's creepiest dating app, and how Colossal Biosciences was created and immediately used by the Trump administration as an excuse to attack the Endangered Species Act.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Regenesis
Regenesis by George M.
Discussed“He had danced around the issue in his 2012 book Regenesis uh where he had proposed bringing back Neanderls which people always get angry are like Robert you're mispronouncing it again.”
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Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a classic science fiction techno-thriller about a theme park populated with resurrected dinosaurs that ultimately turn on their creators.
Discussed“you're literally doing the Ian Malcolm and Jurassic Park thing like you're literally your scientists are so busy asking what they can do they're not asking should we is this [ __ ] up like Michael Kiteon was not a good man but he understood that this is bad ethics right that just being like I wonder if I can”
