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69"Government should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development"

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Government，serving as the coordinator in conducting and regulating social behaviors and activities, would no doubt exert its influence on scientific research and development. This influence, direct or indirect, indeed promote the development of science which bring about convenience, safety, happiness for the society and even cure people suffering from many different diseases. However, some restriction policies are also made by the government to limit certain scientific research in the interest of its own or the society. Then, one question comes into people’s mind that whether government would have to place the restrictions on scientific research and development; from my perspective, there is no absolute answer offered to it and the discussion needs to be related to the reality and concrete conditions. My position would be supported through the following perspectives.

Primarily, scientific research would need to be intervened moderately by government in order to make it more efficiency. First, most of modern scientific research activities, such as space engineering, ocean exploitation, polar exploration and so forth, always need large expenditure to bolster their operations which could only be effectively coordinated by the government. Second, in the era of liberal market economics, some less popular scientific research--which may seem significant for the whole society but could not bring great profit for certain companies, such as the technology used on military affairs,  education or other public facilities---could not be quickly accepted by the market and therefore can rarely get support from the enterprises. This kind of researches does need the protection and support from the government. Besides the aspects of funding and popularity mentioned above, some tremendous researches even need the government to integrate the human resources to accomplish it, for example, the research on atomic and hydrogen bombs and satellites or human genome project.

Moreover, some problems or opposite effects may arise during the development of science which call for adjustment and regulation of government. For instance, government should support the development of medicine but need to restrict the production of dangerous drugs; government should encourage the development of clone technology but need to restrict human cloning; government should foster the development of nanotechnology but restrict this sort of technique to apply in producing non-recycling material. Just as Charles Snow, a Britain physicist, said: “Technology is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.” Therefore, government needs to intervene in some scientific area at the right moment to inhibit this stabber.

One thing need to be attention is that although government should pay more attention to the development of Science and Technology which, as is known to all, is the crucial force to enhance the whole society, the policies they make to loose or give the restriction to science need to consider the interest and requirement of the society and the people, rather than that of some politicians or interest groups. For example, the research on stem cell has long been restricted by George Walker Bush in US, which obliges the US researchers to go to other countries to do this study. This inappropriate restriction not only makes US lose its domination in this research area but also inhibit the development of this technique which may benefit more people suffering organic diseases. Therefore, after Obama came into power, considering the opposite effect brought about by the decision Bush made, he resolutely lifted limit on funding stem cell research which won wide support from the public.

To sum up, government needs have to undoubtedly put appropriate restriction or encouragement on scientific research and development. However, this restriction must not merely benefit the own interests of the government; otherwise, the limitation would do harm to the development of science and the whole society.