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TOPIC: ISSUE69 - "Government should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development"
WORDS: 369
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010/3/29 15:52:02
政府应很少或者不限制科学研究和科学发展
以下是写作前的提纲,但实际上有的点没COVER到
1,让步,有时限制阻碍了科学发展,例子 哈维
2,不道德的研究,拿活人、犯人做实验
3,不利于国家战略方向的研究(没写),有损于国家利益社会安全的研究,思想上的(没写)
I am supportive that scientific research should be given respect and freedom, but I do not agree with the speaker's opinion that the government should place few restrictions on research, or even let the whole research be at the mercy of the researchers. Certain restrictions may hinder the development of science, but it is necessary for government to provide guidance for some kind of scientific researches or else they simply go awry.
Admittedly, in history cases in which government resisted scientific research and resulted in the lagging of development are abundant. For example, in 15th century scientists were curious to explore human body and find new cure to some disease, while anatomizing or dissection of dead human bodies was forbidden by the government. Scientists had to anatomize mice instead whose biological structure was of course totally different from that of human. Little had been discovered until Harvey, who secretly conducted dissection on the death, found the structure of human heart and the circulation of blood inside body in 1628, thus laid the scientific foundation of modern biology and physic. Some restrictions of government are out of contemporary prejudice or religious superstition and should be eliminated quickly.
However, even if some traditional restrictions were untenable now, some restrictions still have to persist in order to secure the basic ethic standard in scientific research. Sometimes scientists are so desperate to reach new knowledge that they abandon common moral ethics.
During the World War 2 when Japan invaded and occupied northern China, secret institutions had been set up by the military agency to conduct inhuman scientific experiment on living Chinese prisoners or innocent civilians. The same tragedy happened in Portland simultaneously, with German Nazi as the murderer. Japanese and German scientists intended to find methods that could kill people more effectively. Should such atrocity of demoralization not be restricted in our civilized world now? Unfortunately, inhuman researches still exist, especially in some medication companies where research is conducted on living creatures, even humans. Government should actively place restrictions on such research as soon as possible.
Moreover, few restrictions on researches that are potentially hazardous to national interests or the welfare of the society can mean disaster. By potentially hazardous, I refer to researches aimed at the development of the hacking techniques against government or corporation data base and websites, of the massive destruction weapons, etc. Recently I read a piece of news that a hacker group in U.S. managed to bilk two hundred million dollar by intruding into corporate data base and stole information of 4000 thousand credit cards, and the leader of this group is now arrested and sentenced to 20 years in jail. Perhaps that is not the worst. Some bedlamites are now devoted to producing massive destructive weapons that could bring the whole planet to an end. How could the government stand away from those dangerous researches in a world pledging for peace? Certainly government should forbid such researches in legal form and place restrictions on the accessibility of resources that could be utilized to conduct hazardous researches.
(Furthermore, restrictions on researches do not necessarily stunt the development of science, they just define the boundary and base line of it——ethical, legal, political and so on. Inside the boundary, scientists may employ any methods as they please. Nowadays many researches are guided and conducted under strict restrictions or even directly by official institution, like Chinese Academy of Science or NATO, and they are consistently making fruitful contributions to the society. Thus I concluded that there is little correlation between restrictions on research and development of science.
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囧了……我既然写了“限制确实阻碍科学发展”作为让步,是不该再写“限制其实不大阻碍科学让步”的 ……否则又回归一边倒的倾向了
但是看到题目时就有点纳闷,government should place few restrictions on scientific development,其中隐含的逻辑就是限制一定会阻碍科学发展,这个太绝对了,得说两句……
In sum, although some restrictions has stunted the development of science, it does not detract the importance for government to impose restrictions on scientific research. Restrictions can remind scientists of basic scientific ethics, laws and the welfare of the world so that they would not thread on humanity or commit illegal wrongdoings. |
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