Many people believe that scientific research should be carried out and controlled by the government rather than private companies. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
正确答案：
As can be argued, government rules can easily become obstacles to scientific
achievements. Usually, most of the world's headline-making scientific
discoveries do not come through governmental establishments, admitting that
fiscal funding is often essential to helping such success to happen in the
private sector. It is false to suggest that the government should carry out and
control scientific research because the issue is not only about money but also
brains.
Just because public funds matter, it does not follow that the government
should restrict that kind of freedom of thinking which is vital to imaginative
minds. Apart from that, nothing is more naive than for the government to play
the role of police and rule research activities. Yes, freedom--that is how
scientific breakthroughs are born. It goes without saying that probably billions
of government's money may be needed to carry out research projects in various
scientific fields, but it must be considered that great scientists tend to
ignore, or even go against the rules. Indeed, it is hard to imagine how many
scientific discoveries could have been missed as a result of unnecessary
regulations. To put it strongly, control is the death of scientific
research.
Scientific research should not be forced in any event. It is because a
research problem is less likely to be solved by any apparatus which money can
buy than to be solved by the brains of a free head that money cannot always buy.
Thus, it does not seem proper for official amateurs to "know" what on earth
scientists are doing. Otherwise, it would not be called "research" in the real
sense of the word. Trying to heavily monitor scientific brains is perhaps a
dangerous attitude since the consequence is always too much foliage and too
little fruit. That can explain in part why the government ought to shift most of
the pledged fiscal spending from the public to the private sector.
All aspects taken into account, scientific research is two things: billions
and brains. With little doubt, the success in a country's scientific discoveries
relies on both sufficient funding from the government and on creative minds from
private companies in which pure research is worth every penny it costs. All the
government has to do is grant money and expect that somewhere, something
incredible is going to be known. (Created by Jeenn Lee Hsieh)
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