Are Scientific Advancements Really Worth It?

From robotic dogs to the first airplane, our world has been drastically shaped by science and technology. Things like the discovery of penicillin and creating safer cars have made our Earth a better place. However, although some of our scientific advancements in the past have been good, the majority of them have been awful, destroying our world and killing families and loved ones all around the world. Because of the results of the twin experiments, the moon landing, and the atomic bomb, I believe that our history shows us that the consequences of finding new scientific advancements are not worth it.
First, when the Germans wanted to know more about science, they started doing horrible tests on twins. Started by Dr. Mengele in May of 1943 in the concentration camp called Auschwitz in Germany, experiments were tested on twins to find a way to assuredly give birth to blonde-haired and blue-eyed children because they believed the future would be saved if they could (Rosenberg 1). However, in order to achieve this, they did gruesome things to the different sets of twins. For example, they gave them drops and injections to make their eyes blue, but those

According to “U.S. Drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima in 1945” by Jack Doherty, this atomic bomb cost the government $2 billion and was a gamble that the government easily could have lost (1). However, when the bomb did work, the initial force of it killed 100,000 people and 250,000 more died from burns and radiation sickness (Doherty 1). According to “Seventy Years Later, Atomic Bomb still influences Health Research” by Gabriel Popkin, when the Radiation Effects Research Foundation conducted a test, it found that 103 people had died from cancer that can all be linked back to the radiation from the bomb (1). So, when we had an advancement in science, we killed thousands of people with