Christopher Delgado's The Culture Of Denial

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Christopher Delgado, claims in "The Culture of Denial"(2015), that since the start of human advancement through scientific discoveries and inventions, there has been a hindrance which is the denial of proven truth. Delgado poses a question and answers it in order to clearly state his stand on the topic which is that the culture of denial is fueled by beliefs, ignorance, and personal agendas. He poses questions and sentences that cause the reader to think about the topic for themselves. There's also a use of examples, and statistics to solidify his argument. The paper is concluded with a call to action and gives a sense of urgency by taking a "we" approach to make the reader feel as though they are on he same side.
Delgado's method of approaching the subject is weakened through subtleties in the paper. From the thesis its clear that he views religion, personal agenda, and ignorance as being weights on scientific advancement. This results in conflicting evidence and results from the real world. What he initially accuses of being ignorance isn't the lack of understanding of a person on a subject but them holding onto either their religion, or not wanting to face a depressing truth. Calling another's instinctive rejection of the unsettling ignorance is hypocritical considering he …show more content…

Yet, so many scientific theories and concepts have not be proven to be true, but accepted as highly plausible and thus implemented. Delgado through his bias also ignores the advancements resulting from personal agendas, religion, and ignorance. Great scientists such as Copernicus, Newton, Einstein, even Darwin were religious in some manner. Companies have paid scientists to research medicines, and drugs for their own reasons but they eventually contributed to the worlds advancement. Science is driven by ignorance; ignorance is the reason we say why, and figure out

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