"We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusion of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated. So, of course, they don't look like that. Partly, he added, because most of them die long before they reach this old creature's age. Youth almost unimpaired till sixty, and then, crack! the end" (Huxley 111).
In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefits humanity is demonstrated when Lenina and Bernard are touring around a reservation in New Mexico where people actually get married, give birth to children, and physically age older than thirty years. Lenina saw an older man and asked why he looked so bad and Bernard responded because he was old. But Lenina did not understand the concept of ageing so Bernard explained what their society does to not look like the older man. The positive effects to having a scientific advancement to allow the people in the Brave New World society to not physically age past thirty and being unable to get sick is that for one they can forever look beautiful or handsome until they day that they die and they don't have to worry about getting some type of disease transmitted by others in their society. The negative effects to these scientific advancements is that even though the children born in the hatchery do not have nor an get a disease from the people around them they could still get a disease from the people they are around if they go somewhere that people do not get preserved from diseases and spread throughout their society and could eventually kill off the society
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