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Science Shows Us How the World Is by Min Seok Kim "Is Science Dangerous?" by Lewis Wolpert appeared in the March 25, 1999 issue of Nature. In this article, Wolpert insists that scientific knowledge has no moral or ethical value, and that all it does is make a just society. Wolpert tells us that we do not know the exact difference between science and technology. In actuality, science makes ideas about how the world works; scientists do not cause unethical behaviors. However, technology—such as the genetic engineering feats of human cloning, gene therapy, and genetically modified foods—can do so. Wolpert suggests some guidelines to reduce ethical problems: all scientific ideas should be criticized by others; knowledge should be used to do good, not evil; and government and the media should act correctly in carrying out the applications of science In the article "Is Science Dangerous?" Lewis Wolpert explains that science itself is not dangerous, and the real danger depends on how safely science is applied—and on how we respond to it.