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　　TOPIC: ISSUE69 - "Government should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development"
　　WORDS: 357（610） TIME: 00:42:00 DATE: 2007-8-9 10:30:50
　　People usually associate scientific research with government’s support or restrictions no matter what fields those researches belong to. When it comes to government’s influence on scientific research and development, there are always a host of different opinions held by different individuals in different fields. Should government place too many restrictions on scientific research? Admittedly,
　　government should not involve too much into the development of scientific research, and sometimes government's supports to researches in different respects are required and indispensable. However, as for researches in some controversial fields, certain restrictions and regulations should be placed on them.
　　To begin with, on most occasions, the less involvement into scientific research government makes, the better development of research will be gained. Firstly, the goals that government seeks for is not necessarily the same with what scientists purchase, for government usually pays much more attention to whether an immediate effect of research will be gained and whether the result of it, if successful, can to some extent promote people’s daily lives. Secondly, government’s values on research usually do not accord with the needs of the development of scientific research, which may have a negative influence on different scientists in different fields, if too much involvement of government was made.
　　In addition, government should supply enough funds for most scientific researches so as to ensure that the development of science would not be prevented by some exterior reasons that are evitable/ avoidable. As for some Ularge programs U that require a vast investment of both materials and human resources, were there no enough funds from government, it is impossible to achieve any expected goal.
　　UConsider, for example, the Human Genome Project, a large scientific research on a global scale that has a worth of three billion dollars, concerning scientists from six different countries, including America, British, France, Germany, J apan and China, and how can you imagine that such a large project could have been put into practice without governments' supports in economy U.
　　Besides, sometimes government should also provide some policies, for instance, to promote cooperation between scientists from different nations to supply more opportunities for the development of scientific research.
　　UWere such policies established earlier between British and America last century, perhaps the double helix of DNA structure would be found much earlier.
　　Nevertheless, when it comes to researches in those controversial fields, indispensable restrictions and regulations should be placed on them. For instance U, clone, the newly developed scientific technology in the 20th century, has attracted so much attention by people all over the world as it allows people to manufacture any kind of organisms or even human beings in factories, but it is in fact a double-edged sward. On the one hand people will benefit a lot when clone is used in fields such as stock raising and gene therapy; while on the other hand, how can you imagine that what will happen if we clone a person like Hitler? And even if we clone a common individual, a variety of ethical problems will still occur. In light of this, as for those researches about the cloning of human organisms or human beings, some restrictions should be made by government and at least the researches of cloning human should be prohibited for the present time.U Also, the development of Unuclear weapons and biochemical weapons U that might lead to a severe threat to the security of all human beings over the world should be restricted by government.
　　In summary, under most circumstances government should not only involve little into the scientific research and development, but also provide necessary supports sometimes. However, in those aspects where many live issues still exist, certain restrictions and regulations should be placed on those scientific researches.