Could Mind Control End Crime?

Flash Forward

Today’s episode is about a future where we try to control crime with brain implants.

Guests:

• Stephen Kinzer, a journalist and author of Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.
• Dr. Shaun Patel, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School.
• Dr. Steph Griffiths and Dr. Jarkko Jalava, co-authors of The Myth of The Born Criminal: Psychopathy, Neurobiology, and the Creation of the Modern Degenerate.
• Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Chicago and author of Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition.
• Dr. Hank Greely, director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University.
• Dr. Apryl Alexander, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Denver.
• Elliott Fukui, a community organizer and facilitator.
• Dhruv Mehrotra, a data reporter at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.

Voice Actors:

• Chelsey Coombs
• Aiya Islam
• Anjali Kunapaneni

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Flash Forward is hosted by, Rose Eveleth and produced by Julia Llinas Goodman. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Mattie Lubchansky.

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