Assignment 1.

Metacognitive Reading Report

Name: NIEVES, RENZO Date Submitted: February 22, 2019
Course/Section: GED104/BM5

Instructions: Read Lewis Wolpert’s The Medawar Lecture 1998 Is Science Dangerous? Then,
complete the metacognitive reading report below.

1. Difficult Concepts
a. I find some concept in eugenics hard because the term is new to me and I’m not
familiar with it.
b. The effects of GMO.
c. The termination of pregnancy to lower the number of infants born with genetic
diseases.

2. Learning Insights
a. Before reading the article, I thought that

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Science and technology are the same. Recalling what I’ve learned in my previous
lessons in high school, science and technology are always together. When you say

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science, there will always be technology.

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However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that
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Science is not the same with technology. Science provides the best way of
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understanding the world and technology is a reliable scientific knowledge which is
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b. Before reading the article, I thought that

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Science and technology are two terms that can be used interchangeably.

However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that

Science is the knowledge and understanding, while technology is the application of it.
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Science is the idea and concepts behind technology.

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c. Before reading the article, I thought that

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Science itself was dangerous. Science as we all know it, is and are responsible for
whatever is around us. Science was the result of everything and science was the root
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of everything that makes our lives easy and less hassle.

However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that

Technology was older than science. Technology gave rise to the machines and crafts
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that early humans did examples are, agriculture, metal works. The absences of science
was still there and only technology is at work before. Science made no contribution to
technology. But when science came, it provided and produced ideas about how the
world works wherein the ideas in technology result is usable objects.

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 3. Discussion Questions
a. Reading the introduction part of the article, why are scientists called “soulless group
of males who can do damage to our world”?
b. Elaboration about genetic pornography.
c. Eugenics was defined as the science of improving the human stock by giving ‘the
more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the
less suitable. But why is eugenic had a rare case of immoral science?

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