Issue69

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Issue69(黄皮书49）
第一篇issue习作
"Government should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development"



The speaker claims that government should place as few as possible restrictions research and development on science. I agree insofar as science development can serve useful purpose for any nation under certain free space. At the same time, however, without any restriction, the progress of the society made by the scientific research and development could be entirely ruined out of expectation.

To better demonstrate my point of view, I'd like first convince that the development of science is beneficial to the evolution of the society if the achievements made in the science field are wiselyand properly used. Upon these occasions, the government should give encouragement and support and even incentives to inspire more scientific research, not the other way around--restrict and inhibit. Here is a positive example: In the battle of SARS resisting, government of each nation reached a negotiation to provide sufficient funds as well as encouragement to the researchers who risked their lives studying on the viruses. Without timely assistance from the government, the
epidemic situation would get worse in short time so that a disaster would spread inescapably. Thus, under this severe condition, government should help rather than restrict scientific research. In return, the society recovered quickly from pain.



Furthermore, I fundamentally agree the government to place few restrictions on science research and development since it is better for the innovation and development of science under a more comfortable and looser atmosphere. For instance, ChenjinRun, a great mathematician, famous for a theory called Chen's theorem now. He accomplished his work with the support from the    university which he worked for. The Chinese government also awarded him the First prize of National Natural Science. The genius is highly motivated from the respects and reputation gained fromthe outside and he concentrated on the theory and finally made significant contributions to the development of mathematics which cannot be surpassed till now. Assuming that the researchers and scientists are all working under monitoring and pressure, and their accomplishments are denied by the government or their works are not admitted to be published, how could the science prosper? Hence, the restriction is somehow unnecessary in some respects.



However, in some other aspects, restrictions should be placed otherwise destructive catastrophe will come about. To account for this, one need look no further than the nuclear power and the clone technology. Take the nuclear power as an example: No one can deny the fact that it does bring benefits to our prosperity,the nuclear power station, the nuclear fuel, the nuclear magnetic resonance and so forthas, a result of the science research. But meanwhile, problems come up one after another. The nuclear weapons immensely challenge the security of the world. In the history of warfare, two nuclear weapons have been detonated offensively,both near the end of the World War Two. The first was detonated by the USA, dropping a gun device on a Japanese
city.The second was detonated three days later ,also on a city of Japan. These bombings resulted in the immediate deaths of around 120,000 civilians from injuries sustained from the explosion and acute radiationsickness. As for the clone technology, if wisely used under certain restrictions, benefits the human beings by curing "incurable disease". Otherwise, the abuse will cause a lot oftroubles.

In sum, the statement is to some extend reasonable on condition that science research is to be in the service of a better society. If the scientific research and development is for the illegal or unauthorized, the government should take full advantage of its power to restrain it.