X-Files: Post-Modern Prometheus

Well, in class we watched an episode from the X-Files called Post-Modern Prometheus. It was about how a doctor figured out how to create people and affect their appearance, but his experiment goes wrong and he ends up with someone with two deformed faces. Everyone is scared of the creation because he is so different from them; to them he is a monster. 

This related to the Frankenstein Complex in how people are afraid that when scientists mess with nature the result will be a monstrosity. It also shows that fear can change a few scared people into an angry mob who will stop at nothing to destroy the monster. 

This type sci-fi can serve as a warning. We have to consider how far we really want to take science, and are we ready for the consequences? When experimentation involves living beings, we can't just put ethics on the shelf so that we can satisfy our own curiosity. Just because we can do something does not always mean that we should.