Post 4/5 , wk 1

Karma
A short film called “Karma, What Goes Around Comes Around….. Bitch” by Tamara Fiolas was interesting. The film starts with a young man walking to his car. As he is making his way he gets images from everyone he bumps into doing good or bad things. He also gets images of them having the opposite happen to them. For example, one man beats and steals from another man. Later, he steals a bag from a man and as he’s running away he gats hit by a car.
I think that almost everybody knows something about Karma, and if not they may know the saying “what goes around comes around”. Most people may find it easy to believe in Karma. It’s probably so easy to believe because it is often used to justify things we do or things that happen to us. For most Karma occurs when something bad happens to us, or when someone is going to do something good. For me it’s difficult to believe because it is not something that I can prove or see. Karma isn’t something that can be proven scientifically. In the film it is said that Karma is “a distinctive aura, atmosphere feeling”. Karma is interesting. It is a belief that is convenient. However, even though we cannot see it, karma can be a good thing. Karma can almost act like a conscious by keeping people doing good rather then bad.
Cargo Cult Science
Cargo Cult science was written by Richard Feynman and it is about what is science, and the integrity of it. Mr. Feynman tell about what Cargo science is. He says that there were a bunch of people during a war that witnessed a cargo drop and wanted the same things to happen to them now. So, they made a runway, a makeshift watch tower and headphone set. After the people did all this they waited for the planes to come, but nothing happened. These people were missing something important but they didn’t know what. Cargo Cult Science came from this, it is when everything for an investigation is done but a key element is missing. Mr. Feynman continues on to discuss how science started and how little integrity it had. People would want, or expect certain result and would make them happen. People would doctor information, or continue experiments until they got the results they wanted to report. Science is important it helps to find out what things work, how and why. Mr. Feynman writes in his paper that it important to document all finding, good and bad.
I think that Mr. Feynman is right about reporting both the positive and negative findings of any experiment. A negative result of a medication testing experiment would save a life. It’s interesting to think about because these types of thing are now being reported. A good example is commercials that are on TV for different types of medications. The make there fascinating commercial about a drug and then right before it ends a fast speaking narrator reads off a list of possible complications. Now, most products that are purchased from a store have some type of warning label. But, as Mr. Feynman stated negative or bad result were not always reported. Despite warning labels of possible side effects people still take the medications and smoke cigarettes. No matter what information is out there about an experiment, good or bad, it is always important to know.