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Mrs.Stollings
English 403-4
4 April 2017
Scientific advancement is being worked on every day of our lives. People become so anxious to
be ahead of everyone else in the world and want to create things people thought would be
impossible. Some scientists go too far with their research and try many different theories. The
NIH (National institutes of Health) invests $32.3 billion annually on scientific research. There
should be a limit on what scientists can and can't do. In some cases, scientists could potentially
hurt the human population by making it decrease or increase dramatically, an example would be
if they figure out a way to duplicate humans then the population would grow. On the other side,
Ever since day one of humans being on Earth, people have wanted to create new things,
be the first to invent something, and go beyond the impossible. Scientists are most known for
wanting to explore the unknown and make everything possible. If no one is willing to take a risk
then we wouldn't be where we are today. These people take large risks of not knowing what
could happen during the experiment, if it is going to end badly or really good. There are private
researchers who spend money on research because they know in the long run that if they can
In some cases, I think that transplanting organs could be a good thing but in others it
could be a bad and sort of scary thing. There are some people who could need something as
common as a kidney transplant or liver transplant to live. In 2015 there were 30,970 organ
transplants done. One scientist is thinking way ahead and wanting to do a head transplant. In
Russia, Dr.Canavero plans to do a head transplant this year. This is completely too far and
would be too risky. The man that is offering his head to be used has Werdnig-Hoffman disease
which tends to be fatal; the body is coming from a person who is brain dead but otherwise
healthy. If the surgery went successfully then who is to say he couldn't die within hours, day,
weeks etc If he does survive then there could always be a possibility of something ending up
wrong with him mentally or he could even go into shock because his head is on someone else's
body.
On the other side, exploring could be a rather good thing for humans. Humans are
slowly destroying Earth as we know it. Twenty out of the thirty seven largest aquifers have had
more water removed than returned in the past decade (2003-2013). Climate change is already a
thing; the Earth is getting hotter and hotter every year because the atmosphere is getting
destroyed. NASA has been doing research on Mars for years now and they have discovered
that there is water. We need to figure out another place for humans to go if the Earth does get
destroyed. It would be an amazing thing if humans were capable of finding another planet to live
on and creating another population of people. Obviously, not everyone would be able to go to
the new planet but if somehow we could get a few hundred/thousand people there and re-
populate then maybe humans could have a second chance and do things right this time.
There is such thing as going too far with scientific advancement, but sometimes it can be
a good thing. Billions of dollars are being spent every year trying to explore new creations.
Scientists are the only reason we have access to over half the things we have. Medical
treatments all the way to trying to discover life on another planet is all thanks to scientist
researchers. Hopefully one day we can cure all diseases and be able to move to a different
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