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activity. In Canada, students begin to specialize in science 
in high school. In college they earn Bachelor of Science 
degrees without ever having to study literature, art, history, 
philosophy or religion. As well, by the time they're 
practising scientists, papers older than ten years are often 
regarded as "classics" (worth citing but not reading). In 
order to remain at the cutting edge of new knowledge, scientists 
must become tunnel visioned. We, as scientists are incapable 
of understanding what the real implications and applications 
of cur work will be. We don't have the breadth, the time, 
the objectivity or the interest to find out. 
"Modern science has been singularly devoid of any 
serious concern with fundamental questions — for 
example, those involving the relations between means 
and ends. Its overriding instrumentalism has been 
expressed in its desire to control and dominate 
nature, almost as an end unto itself'." Joseph Haberer. 
Yet to-day, the most powerful force affecting society 
is science when applied by technology. There is no place on 
this planet we can go without using the products or encountering 
the debris of science and technology. Mien I was a child, 
there were no such things as plastics, oral contraceptives, 
microcomputers, DDT, antibiotics, nuclear power, satellites, 
television, polio vaccine, tranquillizers, jet planes, heart 
and kidney transplants, transistors, lasers, xerox and amnio- 
centesis. These have all become a part of our world during 
my lifetime. For my children, a world devoid of these inventions 
is unimaginable, a primitive civilization long past; yet there 
are people who remember life without cars, airplanes, insulin, 
movies, records, vaccines, telephones, radios, tanks and napalm.' 
Looming within the lifetimes of our children are further 
accomplishments — communication with extraterrestrial intel- 
ligence, fusion reactors, space colonies, .weather control, complete 
mood control, intelligent computers, more drugs, more weapons 
and genetic engineering. Clearly the average person has a 
vital stake in scientific developments. 
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