Chapter 7:New Outlook in Colorblindness

The Wall Street Journal published an article titled "New Outlook in Colorblindness" written by Melinda Beck discussing the future of the color blindness treatment. In the article, Beck talks over the needs for finding a treatment for color blindness. In the beginning of the article, she gave some examples of the difficulties that a colorblind person faces everyday. Then, she statistically presents the size of the problem and how it's affecting a big part of society. The problem is not the high number of people who have colorblindness, the problem is the large number of people who are not aware they have a color vision deficiency until they apply for jobs that require color recognition. Beck presents the color blindness as an obstruction in the way of success for those people who have it. Even people with mild color blindness cannot have some dream jobs, like being a pilot or a lab technician, because of the needs to see colors in those kinds of jobs, Beck said. In the end, the article talks about how we are close to finding a cure for color blindness through genetic engineering. Scientists are sure that the therapy is effective, but they need to know whether the treatment is safe to try it on human. Beck suggests in the end of her article that if we reduce the use of colors in every simple thing in our lives, like the color of the battery charge when it blinks orange for empty and green for full and hotel keycards flash green for open and red for close, the world would be more accommodating for people with color vision deficiency.

Beck uses a statistics scientific and university studies to support her discussion. She also support her ideas by quoting the scientists whom work on the cure statement in her article. The article is disgusting the future of color blindness cure in a Scientific and objective way.

Media:
http://on.wsj.com/1ADQwKf

References:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204349404578100942150867894