Thalidomide

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…

animals covered by the Animal Welfare Act as well as domestic pets and farm animals. Another argument is that animal research is useless. In fact, in the 1950s the sleeping pill Thalidomide, which caused about 10,000 babies to be born with severe deformities, was researched on animals prior to its commercial availability (“Thalidomide”). Due to this event, people truly began to question the validity of animal research. Moreover, opponents also say that animal research is a waste of money. As…

child and therefore it can show up in the earlier stages of pregnancies. Another reason that Amelia could show up is if the mother has an infection, failed abortion or compilations associated with removing of an IUD after pregnancy, or the use of Thalidomide. Q: Is there anyway to prevent this from happening? A: This depends on many different things if the unborn baby has a mother with the gene mishap then it’s kind of, have the baby and find out if there is anything wrong with it. Now, if…

testing fail in trials on humans and about nineteen percent of ninety three drug effects have been properly detected by tests on animals (7). In a real life example, a medicine that was created for pregnant women to calm morning sickness, known as thalidomide, was estimated to have resulted in ten thousand birth defects and thousands of fetal deaths throughout the world, and, before it was released, it was tested on rats, mice, rabbits, dogs, hamsters, primates, cats, armadillos, guinea pigs,…

Although one may argue animals should not be used in biomedical research because there are many alternative out there to substitute animal testing, and animals has feeling and show empathy when another is hurt; however, the truth of the matter is humankinds need to use animals for biomedical testing in order to advance human race because animal testing will help us further understand human diseases, animal share many similar genetic similarity between the human, and it is unethical to use human…

Introduction According the Humane Society International, “It is estimated that more than one hundred and fifteen million animals worldwide are used in laboratory experiments each year.” (Humane Society International, 2016, para. 3). Some are forced to inhale toxic fumes while others are immobilized, these are just examples of the many ways animals are “tested” on. (“Should animal testing be banned? | Debate.org,” 2016, para 9). Most of the animals usually die from the tortuous acts, while the…

According to R.A Aitken, “An asymmetric synthesis may be defined as a synthesis in which an achiral unit is an ensemble of substrate molecules is converted to a chiral unit such that the possible stereoisomers are formed in unequal amounts.” It relates to any synthetic process that incorporates one or more new elements of chirality during a functional group transformation. Asymmetric synthesis involves the formation of chiral molecules. An object is said to be chiral, if it cannot be…

For example, in the 1950s, the sleeping pill, thalidomide, was released to the public after being considered safe through animal testing. After it was released, the drug caused ten thousand deformities in babies ("Thalidomide"). Many other drugs have had similar outcomes, especially the drug Vioxx, which was recorded as causing the most deaths compared to any other drug considered safe…

Animal testing is flawed basically because the human and animals’ systems are totally different, which is a scientific problem that cannot be fixed. The most noteworthy example is thalidomide which was used as a sedative and prescribed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women in the 1950s. Before it was put to use, thalidomide already passed the animal tests successfully. However, unfortunately, over 10,000 children had birth defects after mothers-to-be used it. Even primate animals which are…

Do you ever sit in class and have no idea what’s going on? Well, that’s me right now. I’m sitting in chemistry listening to descriptions chemical reactions. Why am I even sitting here trying to make sense of a subject that has no practical relevance to our lives whatsoever? Realistically, out of all senior chemistry students, who will actually use chemical principles on a daily basis? Most of us haven’t chosen a career pathway yet. The un-deciders, like me, hopelessly put effort in getting…