The butterfly effect

Wow what an article, and what a statement it made in class. I am again reminded that I should give in to my urge and watch the documentary King Corn. I have been thinking about doing this for a while but never got around to do so. In my eyes this science debate if you will reminds me of DDT and how Rachel Carson's Silent Spring opened up the eyes of millions proving what a detriment that the insecticide had on the ecosystem, but everything thing that eventually hurts the environment has had a positive effect too. For instance malaria rates were down when DDT killed the mosquitoes, but that never gets talked about because the bird deaths in the states were more alarming. (This is just a really rough sketch of what I remember when studding the topic)

The other thing that really caught my attention was the reaction Greenpeace had on the bt controversy. They sure do make themselves noticed that for sure whether they are clip boarding around campus or displaying a theatrical performance of the butterfly affect in Seattle. Call me undereducated and overestimated but something about this origination is a turn off to me.

Lastly I’d like to note that politics has been viciously showing up in every article and just about every aspect of my life now that I’m so in tune and consumed with it from class. It’s like being in the third grade again, and learning what tensile is and never really thinking about it up until you see it everywhere once you have been made aware what it is and that it exists. I feel like every time I open my refrigerator, cook, or sit down for a meal I have just invested in politics and stated my priorities because of how I make my decisions of what I choose to put in my mouth. It makes me sick to think about .

The common good for who?

The word “corporate” to me is a nameless chain of command looking for ways to make their employees feel like they never do enough. “Corporate” sets almost impossible standards, and offers nothing less than phony negotiations. What they stand for is perceived through advertisement, but what you get is a voice recording and an unwillingness to understand the problem with sincerity. Taking my thoughts into consideration I can see how these scientists live in fear that their own ideas will be used against themselves, and having a potential risk that they can be penalized financially if they do not take certain legal precautions. Where is the science in that? What is it about the common good if the common wants to take the good you have contributed and use it against you? When something is good everyone wants the credit! What does this say about other science that we are not even seeing? What is being hidden from us that could help us, but there is a laboratory in fear that what they have worked on for so long will be stripped from them if don’t protect their work.

Scientists who work with corporations face impossible timelines to properly do their research, and face so many risks associated with patented work. How is this helping the public if they are doing sloppy research? It’s the mcdonaldization of research and health! What used to be acceptable is now the new sufficient (even though it isn’t). Maximizing our researchers’ productivity and data collection, but also shaving years off the study and saving money in the mean time! Similarity to the tragedy of the commons- it’s the tragedy of the corporations!