ISSUE185 ARES战队第三次作业

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TOPIC: ISSUE185 - "Scandals-whether in politics, academia, or other areas-can be useful. They focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could."
WORDS: 411          TIME: 0:44:44          DATE: 2006-7-6

Scandals, especially those happened in great men and huge events, are the great opportunity for leaders, governers, scientists, and the whole society to consider faults and appropriate solution. Such exposition and solution of scandal do not only represent the effectivity of the responders, but also the democracy system of the society.

Scandals in politics are so useful and powerful that could be considered as the origin of a revolution or even a new era. The Watergate event, as a good example, has made President Nixon to apologize before the citizens and decline immediately. Although he has made great progress on the improvement on the recovering of American economy, national GDP and even the relationship with P.R. China, this scandal is also unforgivable. Its consequences do not stop and provoke a great political and technological revolution-- the one focusing on the political safety and national security. With its effects, the government also spent millions of dollars on technology development, which actually accelerate the advent of Information Revolution. Therefore, in a comprehensive view, such kinds of political scandals may not be the great disaster for the whole society in a long period.

Furthermore, scandals in academia do not represent the whole terrible effects either. Take the Korean biologist, Dr. Huang Yuxi,-- "the Father of human peitai stem cell" -- as an example. The scandal on his false publication on cloning human stem cell are just like a big bomb in the biological science area, and then all the academic fields. The idea from such scandal contains not only his dishonesty to the scientific facts, but also our effective treasures to stop and prevent the similar events. Such scandal remind all scientists as a alarm that the fundamental rule of scientific research is the fidelity to the natural facts and any steps trying to break it should deserve its consequences.

However, whether scandals could make such great progress depends on the effectivity of responders and, much more importantly, the democracy system of the society. A well-being society with a complete democracy system, can effectively expose such scandals in its media, evoke the civilian's focus, and the timely response from aspects of the society, no matter the criticism or the suggestion for prevention. Every scandal are just like a test for the society-- if passed, it would advance with a more perfect condition.

Consequently, scandals are such great bombs that destroy the outdate and even terrible problems, and then endow the citizenship with a perfect world.