How does science affect the understanding of humans and society?

Anna: How does science affect the understanding of humans and society?
I’m writing an essay on how literature and science affect the understanding of humanity and society. I’ve got the literature part down pretty well, but I am absolutely stuck on the science part. I have to choose either between natural sciences or human sciences and relate it to reason, but I don’t have any specific examples. Can you give me a few?

Answers and Views:

Answer by qwerty
It doesn’t, it just makes life more comfortable. No wonder you are stuck.

Answer by darren m
How science affects the understanding of humans and humanity is it can provide evidence to question the assumptions about war. The type of war fought by steel tanks and with steel guns could be countered by use of materials found in magnets if what understand from an elementary science class is correct. the united nations charter of rights and constitutions of world as electronic protections against electronic equipped missiles also serve.
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Answer by Varginniblodh
Scientific developments affect the way we see our relationship with nature, whether as a part of it, a guardian of it, or a tyrant ruling over it. As such, it also affects our views of each other, other societies, and possibly our relationship with some sort of God(s).

Answer by Nothingusefullearnedinschool
There is no “human science”.
Just as there is no such thing as “medical science”. Doctors just guess; if they would listen to the patient, the guesses would be better, but they figure that everyone is exactly the same. “You are 40, therefore you need bifocals”. Or, “You are 50, you need a mamography/prostate biopsy.”

The only science that affects people is whatever they can use in their daily lives, if it isn’t too much effort. Look at computers, cell phones, and all that technical stuff! In high school, they claimed that the populace was 100 years behind science; the gap is much longer now. Louis Pasteur proved beyond a shadow of doubt that covering your mouth and nose would prevent the spread of the common cold, flu, pneumonia…but people are lazy, so refuse to do it. Think about that: 50,000 deaths annually in the U.S., but people refuse to practice sanitary methods.

As to literature: are you kidding? Literature does not aide human understanding. Why? Most people read garbage (if not outright porn).