Remember askjeeves.com? The website where you could ask it any question and it came up with the answer almost EVERY time. Well I have found its replacement in my opinion. The website is www.about.com and I have recently become its biggest fan.
When doing my research for websites that will help get my friends more familiar with the stem cell research world, I stumbled upon this bad boy. The website alone holds answers to anything! You could literally learn "about" whatever you pleased! Since I found this web page I have used it for my French homework, for my random questions that I feel too silly to ask people, and for my stem cell research questions.
The article I thought did the best job of describing stem cell research to the untrained eye was the article about the pros and cons and the ethical approach; which goes perfectly with our class this semester! The pros and cons section really lays it out evenly for the reader. They can see the good side and the bad side, which like we have learned is important for debating any type of argument.
Here is my question to you; technically there are more pros than cons, but are the two essentially equal because of how heavy or serious the cons are? I asked myself this question and it really got me thinking that maybe the cons from stem cell research are actually more extreme than the pros, but then I wonder how that could be when in the end we would be saving lives and not destroying them.
I have decided to make my efforts of getting the information about stem cell research a process for my friends. I will start with the first website that describes all the different types of cells, we will call this step one. The article on about.com will be step 2 and the Do No Harm website will be step 3. I am choosing about.com for step 2, because now that my friends know what stem cell research is they need to come up with an educated decision about whether they agree or disagree with the research, which is where the pros and cons come in.
My new process also got me thinking of course, that maybe it isn't just college kids who are misinformed or not informed at all and maybe that is why there has been such a retaliation towards stem cell research.
I'm thinking about writing a book so everyone can experience my "process of becoming a stem cell expert".
http://biotech.about.com/od/bioethics/i/issuestemcells_2.htm
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