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Iseriously doubt the speaker's assertion that governments should not fund anyscientific research whose consequences are unclear. Admittedly, if the research'sresult is ambiguous, the government may bear certain risk and may even sufferhuge loss of money and waste energy, however, I think whether the governments shouldfund a research or not depend on many other factors, rather than the merepresumed consequence of the research. First of all, the author ignores that the very nature of research is toexplore new fields with different approaches and finally make achievements thatcan benefit people, which means we may not know the results very clear to alarge extend. The government will find it is difficult to make decisionsdepends on a research's consequence whether to fund a research or not becauseof the intrinsic quality of research. So thegovernment should concern more about what kind of research undertake the leastrisk and benefit more when fund, but not to reject all research whoseconsequence are unclear. What's more, I think the government should consider the overall circumstanceof the country before contributing money to a research. Assuming the country issuffering from serious financial crisis or earthquake, or has huge number ofpeople who are homeless and undergo hungry and so forth, then the governmentsshould focus to solve the immediate problems rather than to invest money in anyresearch. If our government still focus on research, which seems meaningless underthose special situation, will inevitably cause upheaval and dissatisfaction ofcitizen. However, even if the government has enough money, it is unwise to investall kinds of possible researches. The government should choose the kind ofresearch that can both benefit people and be profitable rather than waste taxpayermoney to fund research whose aim is vague and illusory, or cost a large sum ofmoney but has little benefit. The "Star War"put forward by Reagan is such an example to illustrate this, and ourgovernment should avoid this kind of things from happening. And the research'sconsequence still seems to play an insignificant role in deciding whether tofund it or not. Insum, whether governments should fund a research depends on many factors, it isunlikely for governments to forecast the consequence of a research, so they shouldfocus more on the whole situation and make decisions wisely, and try to avoidwasting taxpayer money. The consequence of a research should matters little inthis process. |
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