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发表于 2007-1-23 01:39:11
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Issue69
"Government should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development."
政府应该少限制科学研究和发展。
观点 平衡观点
提纲
1、现代科学飞速发展,以至于他在社会发展中起主导作用
2、但是,作为科学发展的本源,科学研究的结果是是不可预见,一方面,它可能没有达到令人满意的结果,但是,在科研过程中或多或少解决了某些科研问题;另一方面,科研成果一旦运用于有害社会公德甚至违法的用途,那将是人类的灾难,仅仅从结果上判断科研的好坏是不全面的
3、所以,政府部门不仅要很好的支持科研工作,更重要的是要规范科研秩序
For a large part of our recorded history, science has little bearing with people's daily lives. Scientific knowledge was gathered for its own sake, and it had few practical applications. However, with the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, this happened to change. Today, science has a profound effect on the way we live, largely through applications in its new technology. Should government place few restrictions on scientific research and development? Based on the fact above, I fundamentally agree with the speaker. Moreover, because of the opportunity costs and unpredictability research carries, we should also take some actions to supervise the whole process of research while supporting it with huge effort.
To begin with, I fundamentally agree with the speaker that government should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development which will give us humans potential benefit. Today, our society is undergoing a process of unprecedented development in which science serves a leading role. Agriculture provides people with foods and clothes; architecture protects people from winds and rains; industry endows people with various industrial products; a large variety of natural and social science has made people's life beautiful and colorful. More specifically speaking, on the one hand, some fields of science play an important role in the things we use and consume everyday: research in food technology has created new ways of preserving and flavoring what we eat; research in chemical industry has created a vast range of plastics and other synthetic materials, which have thousands of uses in the home and in industry. On the other hand, science has also brought about technology which helps save people life: biochemical research is responsible for the antibiotics and vaccinations which protect people from infectious diseases; artificial valves allow suffers of coronary heart disease to return to active living kidney dialysis machines enable people to survive kidney disease which would once have proved fatal;. As a result, the majority of people on the planet now live longer and healthier lives than ever before.
When it comes to the question whether we should support the research without regarding its potential benefits, I think we should take a serious think. One significant character of research is that it is difficult for any of us to evaluate the exact results of any research. Perhaps some certain research may seem to be valuable and promising at the beginning, but once they are put into practice, they would bring few effects or vise versa. There is still so much research which has not attained the ultimate goal, while it is the process of research that has made several notable achievements that help solve some problems to some extent. For example, we have done much research on AIDS for more than tow decades, and we do not discover any effective methods to conquer this disease. Nevertheless, during this process, we have developed several successful treatments to identify, prevent, control and even mitigate this disease, which is meaningful and hopeful to eliminate the disease in the end. There is some other research developing technology which raises complex ethnic questions. The clone technology was originated from the idea of substituting the failing organ from a patient with a healthy organ which is cultivated by biological methods. Such research involving genetic engineering, cloning, and in vitro fertilization gives scientists the unprecedented power to bring about new live, or to devise new forms of living things. We have no idea of the extent to which such research will develop to harm our society in the future.
Accordingly, government should supervise the process of research from the beginning to the end, while supporting it with huge effort. Firstly, money spent on the research cannot be well invested without detailed observation of social demand. After all, expensive research always caries significant opportunity costs. Money spent on research with few social needs could be otherwise spent toward addressing pressing social problems. Equally important is the relevant abilities of research workers. Different studies demand different experts and workers, as well as the scale of research teams. Some research even requires high-end technology. Can you expect a layman in biology could obtain some achievements in biological field? Matching detailed observation of social demand and the relevant abilities of research workers supervised running of the research process is another essential factor. Up-to-date research report must be made periodically to evaluate the legality of the research process as well as the research progress. And these should be served as the verification standard of whether the research deserves further investing.
In final analysis, the speaker's assertion is not without merit that government should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development. But in order to make scientific research progress more healthily and more steadily, important factors such as detailed observation of social demand, relevant abilities of research workers, and supervised running of research process should also be taken into account.
[ 本帖最后由 siyuanding 于 2007-1-23 01:46 编辑 ] |
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