Huntingdon Life Sciences

In David Suzuki’s essay “It Always Costs” he argues that it is up to society to become responsible with future use of technology. Suzuki begins by saying that he believed that scientific literacy is the only way to change how science impacts lives. He utilizes DDT as an example of negative technological effects. Suzuki then explains that his former ideas of scientific literacy were based on faith in predictability, which is unreliable. Suzuki argues that assessments are often limited to a…

applicable to society, and its effect on people. Freud claims that people turn to religion as a coping method, which I believe is true; and I believe that religion is so important to people because of their experiences in society. Throughout one’s life, there are many challenges that one…

that you would want to clone someone you’ll lose, but it isn’t life. Reproductive cloning will only engender more problems to this world. For example, you want to employ reproductive cloning for the lose of your friend, so you clone them. It’s a possibility that your friend won'twont even make it. The reason why is because 95% of mammalian cloning experiments have resulted in failures in the form of miscarriages, stillbirths, and life threatening anomalies. The clones are not fully healthy and…

Linus Pauling was a very facile scientist. He is known by his colleagues to be the most influential chemist since Lavoisier (who was, in the 18th century, recognized to be the founder of the modern science of chemistry.) For a man that lived on this earth only 93 years, he made many strides in his areas of expertise. This was mainly chemistry, physics and molecular biology. He studied the nature of the chemical bond; also with Vitamin C, which he proclaimed could be a preventive for colds.…

scientific research and as what many people have dubbed "The War on Science". Society and Science has butted heads throughout history from the science of genetics, to the shape of the world, even to something as simple as washing your hands to prevent the spread of germs. Society and Science has never been on the same page. We as society improved both technologically and efficiently yet why do we still deny and reject science? We live in a society where vaccinations and climate change is…

You hear about ghost stories all the time, they’re always on TV, there’s even a show called celebrity ghost stories. Many people believe in ghosts, they believe they can talk to and see people (that have died) on the other side. They believe they have a special gift that allows them to do this. Typically people don’t believe in ghosts because of their religion, personal beliefs, or just because it sounds so bizarre to them. This is where people become skeptic. They start to question how a…

other, in five connections or less (five connections link six human beings). This theory started with the following mind game created by Frigyes (1929), How can I link, with three, four, or at most five links of the chain, trivial, everyday things of life. How can I link one phenomenon to another? How can I join the relative and the ephemeral with steady, permanent things - how can I tie up the part with the whole? (p.3) Whilst this quote does not directly state…

They come in many different shapes, sizes, and types. Yet not all animals are not treated by the same standards as other animals. Animal testing is wrong because of the effects it has on the animals such as the harmful side effects, the reduction of life expectancy, and the lasting effects it has on the animal. Most of the time the test subjects are harmed in some way. Subjects often come down with some down sort of sickness or rash. There are many instances where the test subject has been…

According to the Belmont Report there are general ethical principals in research involving humans: Respect for persons, privacy, confidentially, autonomy concerning the capacity of the individual to understanding and the appreciation consequences of participation resulting in the free power to make the decision to participate, sufficient information provided to individuals along with informed consent. Concerning the promotion of well being-beneficence. In order to gain the maximum benefit the…

because of ethical and moral differences in the way different people view the same things, these theories are controversial. Today there are many controversial concepts or theories, some of which are the use of uranium (to improve mankind’s quality of life as opposed to the consequences of Chernobyl disaster) or the use of Genetically Modified foods (GMO) (supporters arguing about the sustainability of foods, whilst others argue that changing the natural DNA of plants and animals can have a…