• Question: Do you make sure you don't go against your religion while experimenting?

    Asked by zehraa to Louise, Michaela, Sian, Steve, Yvette on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Sian Harding

      Sian Harding answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Well I’m a Catholic, but I thought they were wrong over stem cells. Really, they are just another kind of human cell and we use a lot of those. Its perfectly obvious when you look at them that they are cells not people

    • Photo: Steven Kiddle

      Steven Kiddle answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I don’t have a religion, but i certainly make sure everything i do in life conforms to my ethics.

    • Photo: Louise Johnson

      Louise Johnson answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I don’t follow a religion but I hope I would never do anything that my conscience told me was wrong. Luckily I have only ever worked on yeast and other fungi so I haven’t really come across any ethical dilemmas in my work.

    • Photo: Michaela Livingstone

      Michaela Livingstone answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I don’t actually have a religion, but I know of plenty of religious people who are scientists, and I guess it’s a personal thing on what you will or won’t do in an experiment depending on your religion, so maybe if your relgion condemns stem cell research you may choose not to do that. Like I said no, I am not religious, so I base my decisions on my own thoughts of what I believe to be right and wrong.

    • Photo: Yvette Wilson

      Yvette Wilson answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      yes. I think its important to do things according to your beliefs and principles. No matter what career.

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