Science is a controversial topic that has been debated as early as people started to question what humans know about the world. Even today many debate science, and the topic of climate change and this debate goes back to the 20th century where trailblazers tried to wake the public up to the world around them. Science is about evidence, so the fact that it became a political debate is an irrational development. Rachel Carson, a trailblazer of the 20th century, shook the world with her research awakening the American people, stood against all odds, and contributed to today’s society. Rachel Carson was a researcher and was infatuated with nature and very troubled by the damage done by man. In the 20th century America was ecstatic that they had a chemical, Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane or DDT for short, that which supposedly and mistakenly had “no immediate damage to humans”(American Experience). The chemical would seep into the crops annihilating any pests that would …show more content…
In Silent Spring, “This pollution is the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most irreversible” (Obligation to Endure 3). Man has corrupted nature so that the very being of animals is a never-ending cycle of corruption. In “Silent Spring: Personal Synthesis of Two Cultures” Doris Fleischer states, “Since the book was so carefully researched and written, the attacks on Carson were personal rather than focused on the data or conclusions in the text” (Fleischer 20). Fleischer provides a plausible conclusion as to why Carson’s science wasn’t accepted, but Carson was a woman, and people of the time didn’t believe woman can do research. The work Carson completed was prolific for the time, and many didn’t accept it due to science being mistakenly assumed only for