<p>Hey guys!</p>
<p>What do you think the most important scientific issues is and why?</p>
<p>For me, it's stuff like finding cures to diseases and cancers - doing so saves lives.</p>
<p>Just thought it would be interesting to see your answers!</p>
<p>Not to be a total grammar Nazi but…</p>
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<p>And I’d probably say issues relating to usable energy and how we can preserve it.</p>
<p>that’s a very good question but i may have to go with MIT on this one… if we run out of oil, we’re so screwed in every aspect, including economics, transportation to name a few. Diseases would be the last thing on our minds at that time… either way, both are very important.</p>
<p>but if we get rid of diseases and obesity, so much less money will be spent on giving healthcare to fat people and mentally disabled people, giving money to other places that need it more. not to be mean but do you know how much of a burden fat people put on our country’s healthcare spending?</p>
<p>Curing diseases relies on what we get from our resources.</p>
<p>You can’t rid a country of obesity without major adverse effects. I mean, seriously, how would you do that? Make a fat pill? We don’t want a society that relies on pills. Read Brave New World. </p>
<p>I agree with MIT. As much as I care about people, we would never make progress as a whole if we’re only trying to solve problems like that. Diseases will always be present.</p>
<p>Well we need to educate kids about the need to excersise and eat less fatty foods, and with stem-cell research we could do that except all the republicans would rage</p>
<p>Look, forcing people to be fit will not change anything. It’s a matter of choice. Lazy people will be lazy, whether they are fat or not. They will find new ways to drag the country down besides obesity.
I just don’t think that doing the job for them will fix anything.</p>
<p>^ We need less obese people, and more green energy.</p>
<p>Subatomic stuff and physics is all that really matters. The day we figure out how to move faster than light= we have reached the pinnacle of society. Everything else will fall in place after that, like disease cures and energy fixes.</p>
<p>^The day we figure out how to move faster than light = never (or maybe a few thousand years, if intelligent civilization exists the way we know it [at the rate we’re going]).</p>
<p>But, I totally agree.</p>
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Eh? What’s the connection between stem cell research and teaching kids to run?</p>
<p>I’d personally say that learning to manage environmental resources effectively is incredibly important. Right now, the issue is dominated by developers willing to rape the natural world and stoned hippies unwilling to deal with any change. The fact is that better remediation techniques could help us develop more resources while maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem.</p>
<p>Energy generation and transmission are important too.</p>
<p>well stem-cell research would stop diabetes before u even got it
and until that happens kids should excersise to not get diabetes</p>
<p>we should put fat people on bikes hooked up to generators. Obesity and energy solved!</p>
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<p>Except for the kids who have type 1.</p>
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<p>And the Nobel Prize goes to…</p>
<p>How about just eliminate all fat people!!! There we go! Put them in machines that turn them into dog food!!</p>
<p>I think the most important issues in science are the bioethical issues. We can research cancer and energy and whatever else there is to research, but if we do so immorally and unethically, the public response will be so negative that the breakthroughs will not matter. </p>
<p>Just look at the response to Craig Venter’s synthetic cell. We could do so much with synthetic life-- build new organs, replace whole body parts, save millions, engineer organisms that create fuel for us. But people don’t approve of man “playing God”. And thus, we won’t be able to develop and utilize this incredible discovery for years unless it is done in secret.</p>
<p>Which is so stupid - those who are religous think that it’s playing God, when really, it’s saving life, so theyre killing people at the same timne as theyre not playing god</p>
<p>Most fear and anger towards science comes from ignorance. If scientists could create a more effective way to educate the public there might be less of a problem hampering discoveries.</p>