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我的,也是第一篇,谢谢lx拍的G友俄,可能会蛮辛苦=_,=
31"Money spent on research is almost always a good investment, even when the results of that research are controversial."
花在研究上的资金基本上都是不错的投资,即使研究的结果是有争议的。
It is generally acknowledged nowadays that scientific research is playing and will play an important, or even critical, role in changing and improving our lives, which leads to a great number of companies’ sponsoring on research. However, whether these money spending on research is a good investment? The answer and the criteria may be quite diverse to different people.
Foremost, those sponsors may consider the questions, care the answers and evaluate the investment more than others and the target of their investment is the revenue. Whether the research results are controversial or not, the key point to these corporations is what the research results can bring. In short, the criterion is the profit. Hence, if the result of the research is not that profitable, the investment is a wrong decision even if the research is meaningful and significant in scientific fields. For instance, the famous founder of the Origin System (OS), a great game developer who released more than 1000 games and won wide recognition through its Ultima series, Richard Garriott known as the father of the Massively Multiplayer Online Game is a big fan of astronomy and absorbing in exploring space even after he operated OS. When the whole company members dedicate all their energies to the soon released Ultima 9, Garriott made the decision to sponsor the space project of Russia, which stunned everyone at that time. Admittedly, the research succeeded in the end and Garriott became the first individual to work on the space station, who is not work as an astronaut for the government. However, it is obviously that the investment is not so worthwhile to OS since it brought great damage to the development of Ultima 9 and the economic constraint placed on them was the major contributor to OS’s being purchased by EA Entertainment after Garriott’s investment on space research.
On the other side, compared with those bosses, scientists only concern whether they can fulfill the research. Since the majority of them dedicate themselves to their research, researchers place the work higher than anything else even though the result of it is controversial and the sponsorship helping buy equipments or experiment materials is actually critical to the progress. Taking the research done in my applied mechanic institute for example, the equipments, such as the vibrator platforms which can be purchased because of the sponsorship from many enterprises, are one of the most vital factors to the success of the research. Therefore, from these scientists’ point of view, every penny supporting the experiment and research is worthy especially when the work is bogged due to the lack of money. In short, the answer from scientists to the question is definitely yes.
Last but not least, the public is also the judge since almost all the research results are closely related to them. Understandably, the impacts of the research results, those controversial ones in particular, placing on their daily lives are what they refer to when they make the judgment. To those patients needing organ-transplantation, the cost on clone is undoubtedly a good investment as the technology may solve the problem of searching suitable organ while the others worrying about the moral and ethical problems may have the opposite opinion. Thus, clearly, if it does do good to them, people will applaud for the research result, otherwise the attitude will be the reverse.
In conclusion, just like the a thousand Hamlets in those a thousand people's eyes, whether money spent on research is almost always a good investment is not same to everyone. |
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