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STS (Science, Technology and Society) Lewis Wolpert's The Medawar Lecture 1998 Is Science Dangerous?

Read Lewis Wolpert’s The Medawar Lecture 1998 Is Science Dangerous? (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1569503). Then complete the following key inquiry questions.

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STS (Science, Technology and Society) Lewis Wolpert's The Medawar Lecture 1998 Is Science Dangerous?

Read Lewis Wolpert’s The Medawar Lecture 1998 Is Science Dangerous? (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1569503). Then complete the following key inquiry questions.

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ELABORATE

Name: Mark Brian P. Flores Date Submitted: October 23, 2020

Course/Section: BSED – SCIENCE

Let us continue learning more and try to extend them through doing this activity.

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Article Review (Individual Work)

Instruction: Read Lewis Wolpert’s The Medawar Lecture 1998 Is Science


Dangerous? (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1569503). Then complete
the following key inquiry questions.

Key Inquiry Questions:

1. What are the difficult concepts presented in the article?

The difficult concepts presented in the article are first we have Social
Responsibility because I don’t know how it was connected with science. Second, we
have the Eugenics, I find it difficult because somehow the term is not that familiar to me.
The possessions of GMO, reproduction in terms of cloning, genes and stem cells and
the annihilation of pregnancy are concepts that I find difficult in the presented article.

2. What are your learning insights before reading the article?

The learning insights before reading the article is that I thought that scientists will
just plainly research and research until they reach their desire goals and then if they not
contented they were just going to dig deeper until they were able to discovered
something. They just work only on the field that they want to research and innovate
things that they are only interested without taking any orders from our government.

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3. What are your learning insights after reading the article?

The learning insights after I read the article is that I am now fully aware that even
a scientist have responsibilities wherein the providence of the world lies on their
researches and innovation. I realize that they have a big role on society’s development.
The social obligations that scientists have as distinct from those responsibilities they
share with all citizens, such as supporting a democratic society and taking due care of
the rights of others. By reading the article I now know that scientists rarely have power
in relation to applications of science, this rests with those with the funds and the
government. The way scientific knowledge is used raises ethical issues for everyone
involved, not just scientist.

4. Why do you think it’s necessary to discuss such topics in the article?

It is necessary to discuss such topics in the article because science is


everywhere. We should be interested in it and try to keep a close relationship with
science, so that we are able to understand what is happening around us. Science tells
us how the world is. An individual must learn more about science because most of the
time the things that happens to an individual can be explain by science. Most
importantly, being aware of science, an ordinary citizen will become attentive to its
surrounding, what is happening to the society, if there are any social implications and
what is the uprising dilemma that the society faces.

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Reflections:

1. How do you feel while reading the article?

While reading, I feel this article can actually assist me to grow as a person in my
view of this world where I live in. I realize that all things I saw as science were actually
connected to people and people were all unique and wonderful. It is pretty amazing how
we can read thoughts and ideas from people that are far gone from this world. Not a
sound can be heard. But when I close my eyes and listen, I can hear the great tomes
whispering their wisdom into my ears. I feel like I’ve fallen through the pages into a
world unlike any other. When I read something that really moves me, I reread it again,
mouthing the words and engraving it in my memory.

2. Did the article affected your perspective? Please elaborate them?

Yes. For instance, I blamed the scientists for despoiling our environment and
making us live in a high risk society. They make an incredible bomb that can destroy a
whole nation. But I realized that in relation to the building of atomic bomb, the scientist
behaved morally and fulfilled their social obligations by informing their governments
about the implications of atomic theory. The decision to build the bomb was taken by
politicians, not scientist. Also the social obligations that scientists have a distinct from
those responsibilities they share with all citizens, such as supporting a democratic
society and taking due care of the rights of others, comes from them having access to
specialized knowledge of how the world works that is not easily accessible to others.
Their obligation is to both make public any social implications of their work and its
reliability. I learned that we don’t need to become scientists to understand and
participate with science. We need to get closer and closer to science and living science
in our everyday lives.

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3. How will you apply this new perspective in your life?

I can apply this new perspective in my life by keeping close to science, so that
we are able to understand what is happening around us. Most important issues
discussed today like in the article entitled “The Medawar Lecture 1998 Is science
dangerous?” Is obviously related to science, we can think about genetics, food,
cosmetics, climate, biological war, energy and many other things and we will find
science in these things. By paying attention in how we I interact with it, with this
information. I see science now from this broader perspective and look forward to
working and learning in my personal and professional life in this manner. By this new
perspective it can strengthened my already intuited sense of oneness and
interconnectedness of everything.

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