A Debate on Race and Genomic Prediction: Geneticist vs. Heterodox Leftist Logician

Reflections on a debate between Barbujani, Odifreddi, and Barbero

As Italy follows the Milano–Cortina Winter Olympics and celebrates a run of gold medals at an improbable pace, three intellectual heavyweights gathered, largely outside the sporting spotlight, for a very different kind of contest. The event brought together Guido Barbujani, a population geneticist; Alessandro Barbero, the country’s best-known historian;…