Scientific Method and Scientists Essay

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scientist' is but a simple word, unless mad is attached to it. When I hear someone say 'scientist' I think of mad scientists and they are never more than crazy villains set on destroying the world. There is a reason why science and through extension scientist is regarded by many as a subject leaning towards darkness and chaos. People in the past associated science and scientific breakthroughs with magic, witchcraft, and set out on mad pitchfork holding crusades in order to thwart the maladies supposedly brought on by science. While my opinion of a scientist is that of an innovator and of a person meant to bring forth an advancement or direct evolution, I cannot help but imagine all the times mad scientist or even simply scientist has led to the creation of some of the dastardliest villains in literature as well as some of its heroes and that the scientists may be more than a villain or a hero.

One of those dastardly scientists from literature is Dr. Jekyll. This man set out to discover something, create something that could lead to a breakthrough in the scientific/medical world. However, what it led instead was to a literal split personality that caused the world around him to fall into upheaval (Stevenson, 2001). He is just a fictional representation of a mad scientist. A real world mad scientist by the name of Harry Harlow demonstrated how mad a scientist can truly be.

In the 1930's Harry Harlow decided to perform experiments on baby monkeys to understand the nature of love and neglect (Blum, 2011).

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Raping them with a mechanical contraption or keeping them isolated for up to a year, he saw the effects this had on the baby monkeys. By the end of it all his findings demonstrated two things: he was mad and animals should not be experimented on in this manner. What do these kinds of characters, these scientists have in common? What makes them appear mad?

There are three characteristics that scientists both in literature and in real life share in common. The first is the pursuit of knowledge. Scientists perform experiments in order to understand something or answer a question. The second characteristic is the desire to see things through. Scientists, no matter the reactions and results of such experiments, want to see something through to learn and provide the conclusion. The third characteristic is lack of adherence to society's morals and rules. Many experiments performed by scientists would be considered inhumane, yet they perform them anyway.

That is not to say all scientists are like that. However, these are the characteristics so frequently seen in scientists both in real life and in media. While at first I believed the work of the scientist was noble, as I grew older and matured, exposing myself to various kinds of scientists, I realize, the scientist is more of….....

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