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Sts Assignment ACTIVITY 1 METACOGNITIVE

1. The document is a metacognitive reading report assignment for a college science course. It asks the student to summarize key concepts from an article on whether science is dangerous, and discuss what they learned. 2. The difficult concepts in the article were the conflation of science and technology, eugenics, and issues around cloning and genetic reproduction. 3. The student learned that while science itself does not cause unethical behavior, technology can be dangerous when science is applied, and that politicians do not always use science responsibly or for health and social benefit. Cloning also raises ethical issues beyond its potential benefits.

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Sts Assignment ACTIVITY 1 METACOGNITIVE

1. The document is a metacognitive reading report assignment for a college science course. It asks the student to summarize key concepts from an article on whether science is dangerous, and discuss what they learned. 2. The difficult concepts in the article were the conflation of science and technology, eugenics, and issues around cloning and genetic reproduction. 3. The student learned that while science itself does not cause unethical behavior, technology can be dangerous when science is applied, and that politicians do not always use science responsibly or for health and social benefit. Cloning also raises ethical issues beyond its potential benefits.

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COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

Western Mindanao State University


Zamboanga City

Assignment 1
Metacognitive Reading Report

Name: ALPAPIKABAKA
Course/section: BSCRIM

Instructions: Read Lewis Wolpert’s the Medawar Lecture 1998. Is science Dangerous?
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artcles/PMC1569503). Then, complete the meta cognitive reading
report below:

1. Difficult Concepts
a. The Conflation of Science and Technology
b. Eugenics
c. Reproduction: Cloning, Genes and Stem Cells
2. Learning Insights

a. Before reading the article, I thought that technology and science where the same that these
two makes a good definition of the word science. That science and technology come always
together. However, after reading the article, I learned the exact difference between science and
technology. Science makes ideas about how the world works that science do not cause unethical
behaviors. However, technology can be dangerous and can arise ethical issues when science is applied in
technology.

b. Before reading the article, I thought that when it comes to politics and science it has a solid
bond when it comes to our health and society. However after reading the article, I now think that
politics uses science in a different way because politicians is abusing the capabilities of science can offer
and how it works.

c. Before reading the article, I thought that cloning is one of the good invention of science that
has a good benefit and shows how good scientist in creating a clone. However after reading the article, I
now think that cloning can sometimes have a negative effect because it has a possibility to have
abnormalities and it also disrespect God by creating another life through science.

3. Discussion Questions
a. How would scientist deal with the failure that will happen upon doing their works?
b. Should politics act correctly in carrying out the applications of science?
c. Are scientists in favor of the technological applications of science?

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