Thursday, March 21, 2013

Non Fiction RR for 3/21/13

Non Fiction Responce on -  "Scientists attacked over claim that 'junk DNA' is vital to life"  By: @ - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/24/scientists-attacked-over-junk-dna-claim

In the mid 2012, some scientists discovered what they thought was "Junk DNA". They found some particles in everyone's body that looked like they had no use. These particles were called "Junk DNA". Until recently, some other scientists found uses for the so called "Junk DNA" and effectively disproved the original scientists. People say the work the encode scientists did (the scientists who said some DNA was Junk DNA) was terrible and that the statics were horrible, and they are just badly trained technicians not scientists. Other scientists proved that this junk DNA had many uses from genome sequence to our evolution. The scientists said the people at encode science are not scientists, but just a profiting company, profiting off bad testing. But others say the people attacking encode science is just a complaint about big science with big money involved.

I think the people attacking encode science are right about the Junk DNA being a bad experiment with big money involved, but I also think they are using this to make a point about big science and big money in science, where they think science shouldn't involve so much money. I think some of the people really could back down and not go so aggressively against this one company, and maybe use other terms to protest big science. But overall, I really think the small scientist teams, and the big science companies should work together for the common goal of discovering new things, and doing science.

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