controversial topic

i need one....i have a 40% assignement due 15 days after my due date so being particularly geeky and starting it now. lol. basically i need a controversial topic, so i can find an article about it and pull it apart for my 'critical thinking' paper. my degree is in biomedical science so i thought something health or med related would be cool but i cant think of a topic. any ideas or has anything seen something recently thats a bit controversial or seems to be quite conspiracy theoryish? any ideas would be awesome!!!

how about the choice to choose your unborn babies gender, eye colour etc or something similar to that topic. I know what i'm thinking but I can't explain it

yea stem cell is one i did think of, just need to do some research on it. i wanna try and stay away from babies or fertility as a topic just because im pregnant and i dont want my tutor to think i have any biased towards one opinion cos i probably would. lol. i was thinking something along the lines of cancer cure/treatments in older people. when does the line get drawn on who is too old to be given another chance but suprisingly cant find much on it. or at least can get my words in the right order for google to want to help me.

*Lurking* just stumbled across the thread seeing what everybody is up to. *Waves* I like Mama Pickles idea, euthenasia is still a widely debated topic, also liked your idea about middle aged with alzheimers etc. These subjects stir up alot of info and obviously there would be a lot of material and research done into stem research etc. Not sure if you remember but there was a lady (2004 Willie Terpstra who went over to China for a contraversial stem cell transplant - she had MND Motor Nuerone Disease), there was some signs of improvement but she then died. MND is a good one as far as euthanasia is concerned. Also what is the difference between having a living will versus getting someone to take away your pain (ie euthansia). A living will can tell doctors no resucitation, no drugs to keep you living etc or drugs to prolong your life if you have complications from any disease whether it be cancer or what. I guess this is just something that is close to my heart really seeing my Mother suffer terribly from MND and as much as I wanted her to stay alive for as long as possible, it was cruel, people put down dogs for much less. Sorry if it sounds all dramatic etc but it would make for a very good paper and one to really get the brain thinking.
Best of luck with your paper

My husband (hehe) and his friend have a website Truth Exposed (.com) which has a range of controversial topics

Could do it on how medical schools aren't allowed to teach natural medicines as they lose their funding from big Pharma, cause big Pharma only interested in Big money.
And that there is reason to believe that vitamin b17 can prevent cancer but it has been banned by them

http://www.worldwithoutcancer.org.uk/

http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000557_medical_schools_Big_Pharma_corruption.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/023127.html
http://nationalexpositor.com/News/1489.html


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Mon- as a fellow uni student at Vic (and in the same predicament as you re: a huge assignment due AFTER bubba's born lol), I would try to help but my area of 'expertise' is religion and humanities lol.  Remember though, with the essays it's almost less what the topic is about than how you argue your point. Agreed, it *does* have to be be controversial to the point that not everyone would agree with you (ie pointless arguing that the sky is blue as everyone knows that).....but topics like euthanasia for instance, while sooooooo interesting to read about, are HUGE and IMO can't be discussed comfortably in anything less than thesis size lol.  But the cancer gene thing sounds good....how many words do you get?

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Kellie_and_bub wrote: ] And that there is reason to believe that vitamin b17 can prevent cancer but it has been banned by them

Whoever finds a true cure for cancer stands to make billions and billions of dollars- far more money than is already spent on research and more money than is made from the current anti-cancer drugs.

If there was such a thing that really worked, one of the big pharmaceutical giants would be on it like a flash, developing it, patenting it, and marketing it because it would make them ALOT of money.

I can't believe people believe all this conspiracy stuff about cancer just from a few articles in newspapers.

Journalists are supposed to cause you to think critically- its their jobs to present controversial topics and represent both sides.

You should never believe everything you read in the papers, because newspapers are ALSO big, corporate money-making businesses. Conspiracy stories sell papers.

What about that boy who committed suicide and his mother is suing the hospital becaue they told him it was ok to get drunk on anti depressants or something similar? Toran I think his name was? Now THAT is contriversial.

14 ivf babies to a single mothers seems to be very controversial not that that woman needs anymore attention than she has already had tho.