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Society is Fixed, Biology is Mutable (2014)
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I think the more important takeaway from this article is not the political one, but that problems with a biological fix can be extremely easy to solve compared to problems that require societal change, even though we normally think of it as being the other way around.
I still feel that the distinction is not so clear.
Why is "banning lead" seen as a biological "change", but "banning soda" is tagged as a "social effort"?
I re-read it and I get a feeling that what it's talking about is not so much "biological" vs "social" but rather.. "physiological" vs "psychological", and arguing that psychology can be a lot more complex to deal with than physiology. Which I guess is fair.
Makes sense. Author is a psychologist.