https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2020/feb/04/adam-rutherford-on-how-to-tackle-racist-pseudoscience-how-to-argue-with-a-racist

With social media giving a public platform to racists who make their case with pseudoscience, the geneticist Adam Rutherford joins us to explore how prejudice is based on error and wilful misreadings of the science. The human genome may be complicated, but Rutherford explains how early biologists were mired in colonialist thinking – and how modern genetics proves the intellectual titans of the Enlightenment were just plain wrong.

And after Nora Roberts’s declaration that she wants to keep writing novels until the day she dies, we discuss whether authors can ever really retire.