Scientists should be responsible for the negative impacts of their discoveries.

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Do you agree or disagree with the statement?
Scientists should be responsible for the negative impacts of their discoveries.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.

Thanks to the advance of science, our lives have become much comfortable now. Of course, not all scientific discoveries influence our lives in a positive way. Are scientists supposed to shoulder the responsibilities upon the negative impacts of scientific discoveries? As far as I think, I am strongly opposed to this opinion.

To begin with, scientists’ job is to find out new things or figure out new theories through a wide variety of experiments. When they discovery something meeting our benefit, we sing high praise for them; conversely, if they find something we think it is potentially harmful to the society, the scientist should take full responsibilities for that. In my view, it is totally unfair. We cannot blame the one who invent automobiles because of the exhausted gases discharged by them, or the one devise the steam machine, which further led to the industrialization, due to the waste produced during manufacturing.

Moreover, as for me, the government is the one who ought to be responsible for the influence of scientific discoveries. Firstly, to avoid making a negative impact, governments should enact some laws to regulate the research activities in science field. For example, in many countries, it’s illegal for scientists attempting to perform the human cloning experiment. Secondly, governments ought to supervise the implement based on scientific study results. As long as the experimental results are not applied in a realistic environment, there will not be any impact toward our lives.

Last but not least, as a coin has two sides, one same scientific discovery can have two distinct opposed effect according to the people who master it. Take a knife as an example. A knife in a talented artist’s hands will be a tool to help accomplish a masterpiece; if it is in a gangster’s hands, it will be a misused weapon.

Take all reasons into account, scientists are not supposed to take responsibilities for the negative influence derived from their researches and study. Otherwise, their passion toward science will probably be reduced due to the uncertain impact in the future, and this is not what we are expecting

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