J. Michael Bishop's Article 'Enemies Of Promise'

Do Not Fear What You Do Not Understand
Science, defined as how humans understand the world and themselves, throughout tedious experiments and observation science gives the facts and truths of this world and beyond. In J. Michael Bishop’s article, “Enemies of Promise”, he explains the truth about science, while risks remain in science, the benefits greatly outweigh them. In this essay, my purpose is to give the reader peace of mind knowing, furthering science will help benefit in; education, health, and technology. To diminish science by putting limitations upon it, we are putting ourselves back in time. Perhaps, we fear science because, the topic becomes broader with every discovery, and to explain so much, we still understand so little, and
The medical field contains well-educated researchers searching for cures and ways to help those who have fallen ill or have medical problems effecting their way of life. While researchers experiment, and observe searching for cures and answers, there remains many they have yet to find. Like with cancer, which sweeps over this world and many have lost their lives, yet, survivors remain and have taken chemo treatment and defeated the multiplying of cells in their body. Living full and vibrant lives, even with a few medical errors. Such as, the tragic side effects of the chemo treatment, while killing tumors and cancerous cells, the radiation made the female patient’s reproductive system sterile. This tragic side effect leaves young girls who miraculously survived cancer, the inability to have children. Luckily 21st century research labs, scientists started experimenting and creating prosthetic ovaries for young female patients, the prosthetic will be made of the strong, stretchy, and harmless material of gelatin. This prosthetic will give the young survivors the potential to have their own children. Of course, it will be put through multiple tests and experiments before being used. They have already come a long way by placing this experiment with rats, who had healthy, normal babies. This discovery could change so many lives with the upcoming arise
That the very thin line of which holds the science community back crossed over too many times but, this often appears untrue. Even at our Western Kentucky University, researchers have a whole community that states the ethics of the experiment and if it is valuable or not. Like a shrink ray, that is not science, there has not been a reasonable explanation of why we needed a shrink ray to benefit our lives. So, the ethics department would not allow scientists to create such a device, to say the least scientists are not free to do as they please, they have a strict guideline of what they can and cannot do, which keeps us safe from ridiculous and impossible