Josh Weiss Reading Response: Sex, Drugs, Disasters and the Extinction of Dinosaurs Prof. Smith Questions drive science, not conclusions. According to Stephen Jay Gould, many conclusions from science are impossible to prove, and these lead to stagnant claims that develop no prolonged interest in society. Fascinating claims are not fascinating to real-world scientists unless their methods can be tested. In Gould’s essay “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs”, Gould uses three theories on the extinction of dinosaurs to display impactful scientific discoveries only come from testable theories, not solely from interesting claims. To attract attention, Gould titles the three main theories for dinosaur extinction “Sex, Drugs, and Disasters”.
Nuclear power contaminates water supplies. Around the country, there has been cases of water contamination with radioactive substanves. The worl of mining materials used in some nuclear plants, like uranium and titanium, run a very high risk of water contamination to near rivers, streams, and ground water supplies. This would not be good. It would harm more than it would help.
Society is barren, family life and personal relationships replaced by stultifying uniformity and oppression. Los Angeles has become a post apocalyptic world where nature has been defiled and largely destroyed, visually highlighting the ecological and sociological concerns which were prevalent in the Reagan era. Scott’s representation poses the question of whether scientific and technological progress is actually beneficial for humanity. Genetic discovery and engineering has enables replicants, “more human than human” to be mass produced but Tyrell and by inference, the monopolistic power that he represents, have failed to acknowledge or nurture these creations. To ensure the creation cannot harm the creator, a four year life span has been part of the design.
One sees the conflict between morality and implementation of science from the initial stage where many people express their disapproval and apprehension regarding Hammond’s idea to build a park which would be different from others wherein it would contain real dinosaurs which had been extinct for millions of years till then. One of the most important parts of the novel that resonate Hammond’s careless and short-sighted nature about this plan is reflected in the chapter, Bungalow in the dialogue that occurs between Dr.
‘1984’ ends with Winston, the protagonist, successfully brainwashed and left with no thoughts of his own. This lack of hope is also present in the ending of ‘Brave New World’, where John hangs himself to escape from the dystopian society. Ultimately, the somewhat evil governmental powers in the two novels have overcome the challengers to their beliefs, this makes the reader feel a sense of defeat. Furthermore, both of these books were written before the age of technology and are both predictions of how the world could turn out in the future. The tragic endings to both of these novels, particularly ‘1984’ was controversial in the way that readers thought that it was a real possibility and that a dystopia caused by the state could actually occur.
(Amlin, 2008) Prison is less desirable because it serves no rehabilitative purpose for sexual offenders. Pedophiles that spend time fantasizing in a prison cell are given extensive downtime to imagine new sexual fantasies involving children. These horrific visions are translated into terrifying realities once the criminal comes back into contact with children following their release from prison. Even though chemical castration does not prevent males from having sex it does lower the urge. (Tsai, 2007) Chemical castration places a hormone in the male’s body that does not allow them to produce sperm.
“The central ethical dilemma of the 1993 Steven Spielberg film, Jurassic Park, hinges on the question of whether man should employ his knowledge of genetics to revive a species that had become extinct as a result of natural processes” (Stolyarov II). The situation created by the film is very controversial after dinosaurs defy security measures and destroy the human-built theme park known as Jurassic Park. We learn that a business scheme to get tourists to tour a theme park full of man-made dinosaurs in their natural habitats quickly turns into a fight to stay alive when the dinosaurs prove to be more aggressive and true to their colors than the scientists ever fathomed. Instead of growing to be peaceful animals, we learn that they are blood-thirsty monsters attacking guests every chance they can get. When the owner and main
The allusion is used almost sparingly and is dismissive of the religious values. ‘The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. And you have burned so very, very brightly’ – forebodes the impending death of Roy and of ‘light’ and ‘life’ being truly endangered. The making of artificial replicants has defied the ethics of man not being allowed to play God and the absence of the sun represents that ‘light’ or ‘life’ has deserted the people on Earth to leave them to their hubristic luxuries. Loss of natural fundamentals leads to an imbalance between artificial and real nature where artificial dominates and ‘darkens’ the world.
This atrocious chemical lead and still today leads to death, deformation, and diabetes. Dr. Joel E. Michalek, who deals with statistics for the air force, was the first to notice a link between Agent Orange and diabetes. But the federal government was not willing “...to spend millions of dollars on such studies”. Dr. Michael Gough, a retired biologist was quoted as saying “the conclusion I’ve come to is that there is no evidence whatsoever to support any connection between low-level
Specifically, he criticizes the conservative view of a foetus’ right to life by saying that the foetus is not quite yet a human being and shows that the liberal replies to the conservatives are hardly ever sound arguments. He presents the fact that animals with far greater consciousness than a foetus are routinely killed for humans to feast on their flesh. From this, Singer eventually arrives at his main point: the species of a creature should not matter in the wrongness of killing it. In this essay I will explain Singer’s deconstruction of the regular abortion arguments and his own opinion that he builds