Pierre Flourens was a French physiologist who created the firstexperimental study of the localization of brain functions in orderto disprove Gall’s phrenology. Despite his commitment to refuteGall’s inaccurate portrayal of phrenology, Flourens still believedthat science was truth by means of to-and-fro swings of theory. Hesaid, “La science n’est pas, elle deviant†(Science isnot, it becomes) Therefore, he reasoned, all scientificcontributions are useful.
Do you believe all scientific contributions are useful? Couldsome scientific contributions create more harm than good? Usetheories and modern examples to justify your stance.
