Jacqui.W- Madness or Genius?

Madness. After reading the article, my immediate response is that the scientists are mad and or very gross. Some of them were funny, some were stating the obvious but others were pure disgust or madness. To be exact, the funny ones were the aircraft passengers, laughing and tickling one, nail biting boys and the men who can sleep through anything. The obvious ones are ‘disgust has no single expression’, ‘laughing is an innate response to tickling’, ‘extreme stress harms cognitive ability’ and ‘sleep learning is possible’. However, the elephant LSD dosage, drinking vomit, see-saw and turkey ones were disgusting. Besides being disgusting, I also feel very sorry for the animals, but in the vomit case, the person who drank it or had to watch that person drink it.
I think that the image of natural sciences has become completely ruined after these mad experiments. The funny or stating the obvious experiments was just a laugh but it didn’t make me think ‘wow scientists are so amazing and discover so many new things’.

According to my experiences and understandings, from my personal point of view, I can accept that natural sciences can sometimes be gruesome especially when dissecting dead things. But from this dissection I can understand the reasons behind it and the fact that they want to understand it more or even hope to find a cure of some sort for that organ. Also, with my education of natural sciences, I don’t think the experiments they did were necessary. A lot of them were necessary. I mean, injecting a LSD dosage 3000 times more than what a human would take isn’t necessary. It isn’t like an elephant’s going to find LSD by themselves and take it. The fact that a scientist wanted to find this un-necessary ‘discovery’ resulted in the death of the elephant doesn’t appeal to me. I think that the elephant shouldn’t have had to die for this stupid experiment. Also, to even give the elephant a name implies that someone has cared for it for some time and looked after it since it got moved to the zoo. By killing the elephant (even if unintentional) in the zoo seems slightly immoral. Overall, I simply don’t agree with the experiments and think they shouldn’t have been done.