Is science all that good?
Talking - questions to discuss about genetic engineering
1. What is genetic engineering?
2. What are people worried about who oppose genetic engineering?
3. Today it is not legal to manipulate human cells. Discuss pros and cons with scientific progress in the field of genetic engineering.
5 positive things:
5 negative things:
4. If, in the future, parents might be able to choose the diseases that they didn’t want their children to inherit. Parents might also then be able to choose hair, skin, and eye colour. What traits do you think should be “off limits”? What should parents not be allowed to choose or tamper with?
5. Do you worry about eating GM (genetically modified) food?
6. Scientists can genetically engineer fruit to contain vaccines at a very low cost. Is this a good idea?
7. What is cloning? What do you think about it?
8. Do you think genetic engineering is playing God and that we should leave life as it was created?
9. What do you think of the idea of genetically engineering new bodily organs to replace yours when you are old?
10. Should genetic engineering go ahead to eliminate human flaws, such as violence, jealousy, hate, etc?
2. What are people worried about who oppose genetic engineering?
3. Today it is not legal to manipulate human cells. Discuss pros and cons with scientific progress in the field of genetic engineering.
5 positive things:
5 negative things:
4. If, in the future, parents might be able to choose the diseases that they didn’t want their children to inherit. Parents might also then be able to choose hair, skin, and eye colour. What traits do you think should be “off limits”? What should parents not be allowed to choose or tamper with?
5. Do you worry about eating GM (genetically modified) food?
6. Scientists can genetically engineer fruit to contain vaccines at a very low cost. Is this a good idea?
7. What is cloning? What do you think about it?
8. Do you think genetic engineering is playing God and that we should leave life as it was created?
9. What do you think of the idea of genetically engineering new bodily organs to replace yours when you are old?
10. Should genetic engineering go ahead to eliminate human flaws, such as violence, jealousy, hate, etc?