im in class 12. i need a para on science: boon or bane...250 words or more will do. thanku

Hi.

Just as fire is a good slave but a bad master, science too has its positive as well as negative aspects. Science is the most revolutionary thing that has been divided by man. Science does not rely on supposition and imagination, but is an organized body of knowledge based on facts. Vast improvement in the field of medicine has resulted in the controlling of epidemics, and increasing the average life expectency. Diseases like influenza, chickenpox or typhoid are no longer fatal and leprosy and even some forms of cancer are now curable. The crippling disease, polio, has been eradicated from most parts of the world. Cases like Chernobyl, Hiroshima-Nagasaki and the Bhopal Gas Tragedy highlight the ill-effects of nuclear energy. Science has definitely made life easier for man. Telecommunication and technology have mad the world, not just a small place, but a tiny world. We can talk to a person across the world sitting in front of our webcams, we can send pictures and videos in minutes over the net and we can carry a world of information in a tiny microchip. However, the latest triumphs and victories of science need to be properly utilised, otherwise, they can bring certain death and destruction to the human race.

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