11/1 Reflection

Human cloning was a very interesting topic for research. I decided to make my target audience for this piece future scientists of America. I feel like if I can get people to continue doing research and show the possibilities from cloning then the people of America and the rest of the world will follow suit. As of now cloning and specifically human cloning is mostly frowned upon by most of society. It seems that only those who are interested in the sciences are the ones who are really for human cloning. A person who doesn’t understand science so well doesn’t see what cloning really means and why it will and should become a more welcomed thing. The articles I based my research off of are from very creditable companies. Discover, NIH, and PBS are three companies which have built a good reputation and are known for writing quality articles. Based on my readings, I do think there is still plenty of research to be done and that regularly cloning humans will not be a thing for a very long time. They need to make the cloning more successful than it currently is or it will never be allowed just because it’s so close to this ethical boundary of who’s right it is to create people or in a sense play god. When talking to a group of future scientists of America and trying to sell my pitch, I didn’t receive the responses I expected. About half of the group said they would have no part of human cloning, but when asked if they knew anything about it they would respond with the typical answer of you just make a copy of someone. While this is for the most part true it’s not the real goal of cloning. This 50% of people didn’t understand why cloning is something that could greatly benefit the human race. The other 50% of people were a of course we should and a depends. The person who responded that we should definitely clone people was the oldest of the group and studying in what I believe to be the most involved form of science, premed. The other a younger biology major who doesn’t quite get what cloning is or could mean for people but they still think it would be beneficial to clone people who deserve to be. After this discussion I had with my fellow future scientists, I came to the conclusions that not enough people know why cloning could be so beneficial to humanity. There just isn’t enough of a voice about cloning and its possibilities to push people to believe that it’s the necessary thing to do. No one was really saying that we need to do this and the reason is because it’s just not ready to be done. No matter how many times you tell someone how great something is they won’t truly believe you until they see it for themselves and this is why cloning will not become a more talked about thing until the science can back up the possibilities. This is why my audience is future scientist of America and not the general population. I believe that we need more research to be done and in order to have that we need more scientists willing to devote their time and potentially lives to making cloning more successful and appealing to the general populous.