In college, chemistry students are taught on all the technicalities they have to know. Immersed into new technologies and new studies that could aid them to resolve current situation. It’s true that the cure for cancer and AIDS has not yet been found, but it doesn’t mean that it is already something that would prove the saying “Chemists have solutions” a fallacy. Even the solution for chicken pox and other diseases took years before it was resolved. Cancer today was the chicken pox a long time ago, and we are already nearing its cure. People just have to keep their faith and believe that there is one Chemist out there sent by God to cure the disease.

It is a fallacy that chemists could only solve problems created by them as well. Diseases are problems faced by most of pharmaceutical chemists, none of them created these threatening diseases, yet the solutions are found and the diseases are cured. Likewise, increasing problem with the cost of petroleum products continuous to alarm the world, and the root cause of that is primarily the scarcity of oil resources. However, petroleum chemists did not resolve it by merely finding another site to dig out oil, but rather, presented a lot of alternatives to be used to replace petroleum, and save what is left for us. Increasing the yield of products of every manufacturing site has always been a problem due to lack of manpower, high-energy cost and low profit sharing. But then, equipment engineers, who are not all engineers all the time, most are chemists at the same time, found ways to maximize what the companies have, and increase their productivity.

Having these stated, I guess, is enough to prove that chemists do not only provide solutions to situations created by them as well. Even issues that has long been there since time immemorial has been the target of chemists to resolve, and was able to resolve. Solutions do not only mean immediate answers to these concerns, but most of the solutions take time, and though, sad to admit, some solutions find their use to human kind only after the chemist has died.