TOK - Ethical Limitations on Science


When it comes to science experiments, there should be ethical norms, and most people would agree with that, for example, if a science experiment has zero harm towards the patients whether they are humans or even animals. But when it comes to religion, political views,  sense of reasoning and memory, things could change on what is seen as ethical. Therefore, most science experiments today and back then as well, are seen as being unethical because of the disagreements when it comes to religion and political views. But the FDA is trying to be fair when it comes to their experiments and tries to respect the public with their views towards on what's ethical and unethical in science experiments. An RLS occured with the “Harlow’s Monkey Experiment”, this experiment was viewed as unethical due to reasoning and personal views; This experiment works by placing Monkey infants away from their mothers for a time of six to twelve hours after their birth and instead raised with a “substitute” mother mothers made from  either of heavy wire or of wood covered with soft terry cloth, this experiment was done by Harry Harlow, he would also scare the infant monkeys to see if they would run and hide behind their cloth mother; this operation was done around the mid-20th century and has received hate from the public and was seen as unethical. In the present day, we are still experimenting on animals, testing make-up, hair products, skin care products and even medication have experimented on dogs, cats, rats, rabbits, monkeys and several other animals, animals are being tested with products to check if the certain product is safe to be used by humans. Although that Harlow’s experiment was deemed unethical, and to some extents so is today's experiments too, but they are still going on today. I believe that scientist should stop operations that may cause harm, even testing products on animals today is always wrong and may cause the animal to die and get sick.

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  1. AbderFebruary 6, 2018 at 11:28 PM

    This blog post was quite informative, and I liked the amount of detail you went into on the actual experiment however I believe that you should have focused more on the ethics of it all as you discussed it, and stated it but not in a lot of detail.

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  2. Rodina GhanemFebruary 6, 2018 at 11:51 PM

    Hamel, I apprechiate the way you presented the ethical dilema's. This blog was very informative as it presented both sides of the arguement. THhis blog just lacks the connection to the methods of making decisions such as ulitarinanism, the devine command theory, and intuitionism. The RLS was quite effective in presenting an eqaully torn debate.

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