issue69[Shining Sep]作文组 政府与科研

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TOPIC: ISSUE69 - "Government should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development"
WORDS: 484        TIME: 1:32:14          DATE: 2006-8-25
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During the process of scientific research, government's attitude plays a more and more significant role that we can not ignore. Whether the restrictions should the government place on scientific research and development is proper and worthy arouse our attention. I hold an opposite view with the speaker that government should provide the scientist an free and relax circumstance, although restrictions are necessary sometimes.

In the era of highly technology leading our life, a myriad of scientific research achievements have changed our life and facilitate the development of our society. When it comes to automation research area, the more and more advanced shorten the distance between continents. With the success in medical research, penicillin extents human’s ages. It’s the invention of computer that makes our study and work more efficient and convenient. Hence, the development of science, affecting almost every aspects of our life, is a catalyst of progress of our society/

Most of the outstanding researches are achieved under free and uncontrolled condition, which allow the scientists can do what they really want to do. This freeness even prompted and inspired their impetus and inspiration. Among illustrations of this truth might be cited, the experience of Yuan Longping will furnish a cogent example. As Yuan, the "Father of hybrid rice" in China, put it when he was rewarded State Supreme science and Technology Award(and I paraphrase)" What I want to gratitude most on the way of research, at this time, is our government who provide us a free and unrestricted circumstance for all the scientific researchers." Yuan's hardly researching process experienced several crisis, some scientific researches were forbidden due to the large use of fund, when China's economy was in a depression. Fortunately, contemporary government realized the worth of Yuan's research, and did not put any restriction on it. As a matter of fact, "the super rice" solve the problem of food China met. The wise nonrestrictive policy not only provides a square for the scientist, but facilitates the development of whole society in turn.

However, at the time we are enjoying the appropriate government’s free policy, some ill-effects due to the lack of supervise and restrict need our attention. When it comes to biomedical, clone, is a disputed issue without stop, especially on the issue of human cloning. We are pleased to find that lot of governments have enacted relevant regulation to forbid research on new stem cell derived from human embryos. We can not imagine what our world and human will be if human cloning is free from restriction. It is the timely and proper controls of this scientific research regulate the order of our life.

In general, scientific research and development needs circumstances of freedom and these researches will to large extent facilitate the development of our society. But we should not overlook to put restriction in some particular area, if not, it may encumber our progress or even bring disaster.

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Issue 49 Government should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development.

The speaker asserts that as few as restrictions should be placed by government on scientific research and development. In my view, government should regulate the scientific research and development and carefully restrict them in terms of the means and ends of them.

True that scientific research is the exploration of the unknown for ture answers to our questions, and for lasting solutions to our enduring problems. It is also the chief means by which we humans attempt to satisfy our insatiable appetite for knowledge, and our craving to understand ourselves and the world around us. However, as far as the scientific research itself is concerned, it is the human activity integrating means and ends, both of which interplays with each other to promote the development and achievement of human progress. A critical problem arises when the approach and purpose of the research ,more often than not, are influenced and manipulated for interests of human beings which might conflict in different value systems, history contexts, moral standards. To reconcile the complicated conflicts, the government, possessed of the highest authority, assumes the responsiblity to regulate and control the scientific research and development in its country with enforcement of the laws.     

When it comes to restriction on scientific research and development, government should carefully and prudently take actions and measures. It is widely accepted that science and technology have the potential for incredible good -- to improve lives, to save life, to conquer disease. Research in some realms such information technology has already significantly improved and transformed the way of communication with the development of internet. Research in medicine has also saved many people's lives and offers hope that millions of our loved ones may be cured of a disease and rid of their suffering. Thus, in terms of the benefits and achievments of these researches, it is laudable for government to put funds and energy into these realms for further advances. Any restriction to impede or suspend the development of science and technology is perilous.

Yet, when the fruits of the scientific research are used to the extent that they are inflicted on the existence and living of humans beings, government must take action to restrict the dangerous ramification of the achievemnts. Although the success of the research of the nuclear weapons such as the atom bombs demonstrated the new height of scientific and technological peak with the theory of relativity, its extremely horrible killing power witnessed in World War II had an indelible injure on the multitude of civilians and  posed a significant threat to the regional and globle security. Without restricting the research on nuclear weapons, more people will die and the world will peril.

On the other hand, government should control and regulate the research whose means are controversial but ends are beneficial or even noble. For example, scientists believe that research on embryonic stem cells offers the most promise that could help improve the lives of those who suffer from many terrible diseases because  these cells have the potential to develop in all of the tissues in the body. But it raises profound ethical questions, because extracting the stem cell destroys the embryo, and thus destroys its potential for life. If government puts no restriction on how the stem cell is extracted, a culture that devalues life will probably spread, and moral concerns of the human beings beyond the value of embryo will deteriorate. By restriction the means of research, government also assumes the obligation to foster and encourage respect for life for its country and throughout the world.

In sum, scientific research and development integrate means and ends which are often controversial when extended beyond the realm of science. Government should take the reponsibility to regulate and, if necessary, restrict scientific research and development.