AoK 2 - Natural Sciences- Robert Win

The article 'Madness or Genius?' recounts several scientific experiments which were conducted which were considered the most "bizzare".

These experiments were conducted under unusual conditions to derive results which would be unexpected by many, for example, according to sources, in 1954 Soviet surgeon Vladimir Demikhov was able to join two seperate dogs together, froming a live, two-headed dog.

Experiments like these mentioned in the article suggests that Natural Sciences like many things can be manipulated and changed or effected by people. The article also draws a picture about Natural Sciences and how they affect outcomes, as the extract about 'how the assumption of one dieing can affect that persons ability to focus on a specific but none life saving task. The extract states that an experiment were a military pilot was told to tell the 10 military passengers on board that the plane was about to crashland after faking that one of the planes engines had failed. The soldiers were then asked to fill out insurance forms in case they were to die. Later on it was found that the soldiers writting the insurance forms under pressure and the fear of dieing made more writing mistakes than if they were not in any form of mental pressure of that state. The soldiers were later told by the pilot that it was all a lie for an experiment. Here, the examples of natural sciences would be the psychological 'pressure' put on the soldiers and how something we cannot see could have such an affect on ones performance.

The picture that Natural science is a sometimes invisible and modifiable form of science relates and matches to many examples where people are able to take something from nature and change it to ones will. In my opinion natural science was and is the basis of all science as through natural science we would not havebeen able to develop technologies from raw resources to modern machinery and chemistry.