Jason H- Aok 2 reactions on the 'Madness or genius' news article)

After reading the 'Madness or genius' news article on various bizarre experiments, science is depicted as mad, immoral and pointless, to some extent. Mad because drinking and rubbing yellow fever vomit on body is harmful. Immoral because LSD is hallucinatory drug which kills at high dosage; still, scientists injects a massive dosage of LSD into an elephant, inflicting large amount of pain on the animal to see if it "induces temporary madness". And pointless because the test on what extreme stress has on cognitive ability test, as we all know, extreme stress causes the brain to lose cognitive abilities which can be seen through the example of how we tend to forget lines whilst performing because of "stage fright".

However, we all know that not all scientists are mad, some discovered things that can alter the world.For example, Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic in the world, Penicillin; Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element known as Radium. Both of these discoveries contributed to medical science nowadays, curing what once can't be cured. I understand that scientists wants to make discoveries that can change the world. Strong impulses hides their ability to think of the consequences. Its just like Frankenstein creating a being likeness of man, when he realized what he did wrong, it was too late already. My response can be summed up nicely by John Stuart Mill's quote "It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak."