Enormously exciting era, advances in genetics and neuroscience are giving us new tools that will enable us to take giant strides in understanding human behavior, human societies, policies, and economies. We are like physicists, i like to say at the outset of the 19th century poised at a moment in history that would produce faradays in md is in the coming years. People need and dalton ought to be excited and in our case i think we both are but a lot of social scientists arent. Why . Because for almost a century now the social sciences have been in the grip of an orthodoxy that is scared stiff of biology. At the moment it takes the form of three widely and loudly proclaimed truths, gender is a social construct, race is a social construct, class is a function of privilege. I have stated those tenants very boldly. If you go to a University Campus and chat privately with faculty members Whose Research touches on these issues you will find many of them have a much more nuanced view than that
Thank you to all of you. Very happy to be here i miss my chance at the aquarium but i want to talk about healthcare but first i want to talk about canada and anecdote that comes from quebec. As a place of two things extremely punishing the problematic and a very low vaccination rate right now it is 75 percent. You want 95 percent for the herd mentality. Those the anti baxters that have chem trails come hell or high water they will not vaccinate their kids but most fall somewhere in the middle. And then to look at the results and they watch tv but they choose but as rush tells us in choosing not to choose and the kids go unvaccinated but they were not getting the job done because they wanted time to see patients. And with those irregularities so it took three hospitals and 53 social workers and call them vaccination counselors. And then to say hello. And the canadian french canada. So what questions do you have about vaccination cracks and to make that informed choice. So what happens c
Aloysius Uche Ordu, director of the Africa Growth Initiative (AGI) at Brookings, and Landry Signé, AGI senior fellow, discuss the vulnerabilities and opportunities facing nations on the African continent. From climate change to political instability, positive economic growth to increasing life expectancy, Ordu and Signé offer their perspectives on policy solutions for Africa.