In the article Young Blood by Jess Zimmerman, she discusses how people want to believe magic over science. She focuses specifically on the magical cures of growing old and wanting to stay young forever. Zimmerman uses her stories, and quotes from several reliable sources to show the readers she is credible, and to evoke emotion from the reader.
The article young blood starts out with a study about mice that was just recently done in Stanford, Villeda. This study took blood from younger mice and injected it into older mice. This study started Zimmerman off with her discussion of the obsession of people to remain youthful. She then goes into stories about people from the past using blood, or other body items from animals to remain youthful. She equates these stories of people doing these unconventional acts to the fact that humans tend to have magical thinking. “No matter how much a culture congratulates itself on being science-minded, we wrestle with a deep-seated tendency towards magical thinking.” (Zimmerman) There are two types of magical thinking done by humans, but the first type of sympathetic magic, homeopathic magic, is deeply ingrained in our history of medicine, and trying to find these magical cures. She mentions several different stories from the past to demonstrate
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She uses these quotes to keep the article less opinion based, and more factual. Since this article can be seen as an opinion based article, it is important to have information showing that there are more people out there who have done the research. Zimmerman using quotes from other professionals shows that it is more than her own opinion she is writing about, and that she had to do some extra research to write out her article. She also mentions people talking about the topic discussed in the article on the radio, or online. This is more proof of her research being