The Argumentative Analysis Of 'Editing The Human Race'

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As the technological generation has made its way into the homes of people all around the world, it has recently come up with an innovative piece of work that is commonly known as, CRISPR. To be more specific, CRISPR is a gene-editing process that allows professionals to remove any piece of an organism's DNA, as described in the article, "Editing the Human Race." The article gives evidence as to how the technique is performed and also gives the benefits and detriments that CRISPR could possibly generate. Among the techniques that the author uses in the article to present the arguments of CRISPR lies a flaw, for the fact that it states both the disadvantages and the advantages of CRISPR and not solely setting into one side of the argument to either prove it or disprove it. While the article is useful in setting up background knowledge towards CRISPR, it is vague and inaccurate because it doesn’t clearly state or provide expert evidence of how this scientific technique has contributed to society
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Logos is used as an appeal of an argument to somewhat persuade the reader to accept the author's arguments by using a variety of techniques, in this case, using a sense of logic and reasoning. For instance, in "How does CRISPR Work," the author states how the technique "...Acts like a molecular scissors, the bacteria cuts out key genes of the virus and stores them…" To contradict these arguments, there is no significant evidence presented by the author that proves that the process would be at least 95 percent effective. Additionally, based on the experiments described later in the article, it is clearly depicted that there is no guaranteed efficiency in the methods of CRISPR. Therefore, the appeal of logic fails to be truly effective to persuade the reader to incline towards using the biological
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