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发表于 2010-7-26 23:34:00
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本帖最后由 hythythyt 于 2010-7-29 17:34 编辑
I69 :第一篇Issue,肯定超时了,请多多指教
What is scientific research intended for? To improve people's life standard and to make all the human being enjoy science-related convinients and benifits, I think, are one of the best answers. In my opinion, it is such criteria for making judgements: whether or not, government should place restricions on scientific research and development. We cannot make a sweeping statement about this question, since it depends on different situations.
In some cases, government should not tamper too much with progress of science, if not, it will bring about misguiding scientific progress into improper direction, or even encumber headway in science and therefore hamper advance of the whole society. Some historical events have proved this saying. Charles Robert Darwin was an very famous English naturalist who claimed that all scientific process, which he called natural selection, resulting in braching pattern of evolution. Unfortunately, in that era, all the society was controled by Christian church, including the rulling class. They treated this theory totally as a freak, labeling heterodox thought on it. As time went by, it turned out Darwin was right and it was then government and religious leader who impeded science, and society moving ahead. And so it was the case with Nicolaus Copemicus, who was a Renaissance astronomer and the first people to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology. This theory displaced the statement that Catholic church belived in: Earth was the center of the universe, and therefore was rejected by the government under the control of religion. And here is another example. In Christian Europe, with the collapse of Roman imperial authority, the study of dissection became localised because of religious government, which was obstructive to the development of anatomy.
From all the typical cases mentioned above, we can find out that government may be not wise enough for some particular reasons. A religion-controlled government evaluated new scientific theories or reserches from a religious view,whose benchmark is whether fit for the dogma, not the fact. If such government's will dominates science, it will definitely unfavourable for human advancement in both science and society.
However, not interfering too much doesn't mean never stepping into. Everything has two sides, containing science. Science can be benifical to human beings and also can ba fatal to us, so in this situation we need government to supervise in an appropriate way. Should we do everything that our science and technology can achieve? Here are some big events in history and you will find out the answer. From 1932 until 1972, the US public Health Service conducted a study in which 399 impoverished blask men diagnosed with syphills were monitored to record the natural history of that disease. This study was controversial for reasons concerning ethical standards, primarily bacause investigator s rejected to heal patients appropriately after the 1940s validation of penicillin therapy as an effective cure for the disease. This is the notorious scandal, Tuskegee Study. Although the stude of syphill's natural history was helpful to treat this disease, it really crossed the line of ethics at the expense of letting almost 400 people die unfeelinly. If government had basic interdance to the research, such villainous event shouldn't have happened. As for embryonic stem cell research, it also required government's interdance by reason of likelihood going against basic ethics.
Without supervision from government to scientific research, some scientists may focus merely on their own works, regardless of contravention of the moral, and even do something baleful to the public. Especially in our time,possessing advanced technology and refined apparatuses,like nuclear weapon, clone technic, chemical and biological weapons, etc if one of them is out of control, the whole human beings may be decimated, bringing about the most terrible catastrophe.
On one hand, with too much interference to scientific development, science may get into the bog and become stagnant, and on the other, without any supervision to scientific progress, it may turn into a cold-blooded killer and result in fatal calamity. So what should we.do? I think is to find the balance between two sides and take advantage of science to establish our society more modernized.
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What is scientific research intended for? To improve people's life standards by enjoying science-related conveniences, I think, is one of the best answers. In my opinion, it is such criteria, whether can bring about benefits, that be adopted for making judgements: whether or not, government should place restricions on scientific research and development. We cannot make a sweeping statement about this question, since it depends on different situations.
In some cases, government should not tamper too much with progress of science, if not, it may make for misleading scientific progress into an improper direction, or even encumber headway in science , therefore hampering advance of the whole society. Some historical events have proved this saying. Charles Robert Darwin was a famous English naturalist who claimed that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and proposed a scientific theory, which he called natural selection, resulting in branching pattern of evolution. Unfortunately, in that era, all the society was controled by Christian church, including the rulling class. They treated this theory totally as a freak, labeling heterodox thought on it. As time went by, it turned out Darwin was right and it was then government and religious leaders who impeded science and society moving ahead. Here is a similar story about Nicolaus Copemicus, who was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology. His theory displaced the statement that Catholic church belived in: Earth was the center of the universe, and therefore was rejected by the government under the control of religion. In addition, with the collapse of Roman imperial authority in Christian Europe, , the study of dissection became localised because of religious government, which was obstructive to the development of anatomy.
From all the typical cases mentioned above, we can find out that government may be not wise enough for some particular reasons. A religion-controlled government evaluated new scientific theories or reserches from a religious view,whose benchmark is whether fit for the dogma, not the fact. If such governments' will dominate science, it will be definitely unfavourable for human advancement in both science and society.
However, not interfering too much doesn't mean never stepping into. Everything has two sides, containing science. Science can be benifical to human beings and also can ba fatal to us, so in this situation we need government to supervise in an appropriate way. Should we do everything that our science and technology can achieve? Here are some big events in history and you will find out the answer. From 1932 until 1972, the US public Health Service conducted a study in which 399 impoverished blask men diagnosed with syphilis were monitored to record the natural history of that disease. This study was controversial for reasons concerning ethical standards, primarily bacause investigators refused to heal patients appropriately after the 1940s validation of penicillin therapy as an effective cure for the disease. This is the notorious scandal, Tuskegee Study. Although the stude of syphilis' natural history was very important scientific materials for treating this disease, it really crossed the line of ethics at the expense of letting almost 400 people die unfeelinly. If government had basic interdance to the research, such villainous event shouldn't have happened. As for embryonic stem cell research, it also required government's interdance by reason of the likelihood going against basic ethics.
Without supervision from government to scientific research, some scientists may focus merely on their own works, regardless of contravention of the moral, and may even do something baleful to the public. Especially in our time, possessing advanced technology and refined apparatuses,like nuclear weapon, clone technic, chemical and biological weapons, etc, if one of them is out of control, the whole human beings may be decimated, bringing about the most terrible catastrophe.
On one hand, with too much interference to scientific development, science may get into the bog and become stagnant, and on the other, without any supervision to scientific progress, it may turn into a cold-blooded killer and result in fatal calamity. So what should we.do? I think is to find the balance between two sides and take advantage of science to establish our society more modernized.
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