Answer 1:
Different scientists have different views on
euthanasia. By euthanasia, I'm assuming you
mean: euthanasia of people, as opposed to
euthanasia of animals. In either case, different
scientists have different views. Euthanasia is
really not a scientific issue, because it is not
an issue where one can do experiments to reach
an answer about whether euthanasia is good or
bad.
I googled 'euthanasia' and the 2 main
scientific organizations in the U.S. - the
National Academies and AAAS, the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. In
both cases, all the Google citations for
euthanasia referred to the euthanasia of
animals. Usually, the concern was about making
euthanasia of research animals as humane as
possible. In one AAAS publication, the question
was about whether there was an alternative to
euthanasia for all the stray dogs and cats in
the U.S. and other countries, especially
developing countries, which have many fewer
resources than the U.S. for rescuing stray
pets. This publication discussed the
possibility of something like an injection,
which would be simpler than spaying and
neutering all the stray pets.
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Answer 3:
Science is a method of learning about the
universe. Science cannot measure right or wrong,
and thus science cannot tell us anything about
right or wrong on the subject of something like
euthanasia.
Now, scientists are people, and as people
individual scientists have their own beliefs and
opinions of what the right and wrong thing to do
are, but because science itself has nothing to
say on the matter, individual scientists can and
do differ in their opinions of euthanasia, just
as non-scientists do.
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