English Paper- Is Science Dangerous
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Is Science Dangerous?CONTENTS Abstract (3)Key Words (3)Introduction (3)01. The Internet leads to Internet addiction disorder (3)02. Information security issues caused by internet data (4)03. Bio security risks caused by transgenic technology (4)04. Nuclear energy utilization and nuclear safety crisis (5)05.Conclusion: emphasis the education on ethics of science and technology (5)Reference (6)AbstractScience and technology may destroy the human being has become the greatest fear that people can feel today. Science and technology is a double-edged sword, this idea has become the consensus of the people,such as the Internet addiction disorder, the United States’ Snowden event, the debate on transgene, the nuclear leak event of Japan, and so on.In order to overcome the negative effects of high-tech activities, we must pay high attention to the research and education on ethics of science and technology when we developing science and technology.Key WordsScience and technology;negative effects;ethics research and education; IntroductionIn recent years, a series of hot events have raised concern and reflection on science and technology, such as the Internet addiction disorder, the United States’ Snowden event, the debate on transgene, the nuclear leak event of Japan, and so on. Science and technology may destroy the human being has become the greatest fear that people can feel today.01. The Internet leads to Internet addiction disorderInternet addiction is means that someone had a pathological love and dependence on the network, and then resulting in changes in the person’s mental or physical. It can lead to loss of sense of time and lost self-control ability finally.Statistics show that at present 200 million Internet users in the world, about 11.4million people suffer from some degree of mental disorder, around 6% of the number of Internet users.According to the results of a survey by Kimberly Young, a researcher of Pittsburgh University of United States, among the 600 respondents, 23% acknowledged that average time spent online per week of 38.5 hours (the equivalent of a week’s work), neither to participate in the academic activities on the Web, nor in order to find a satisfactory job.02. Information security issues caused by internet dataIn June 2013, United States former CIA employee Edward Snowden broke the news: United States National Security Council and the Federal Bureau of investigation launched a code-named “Prism”of the secret surveillance program in 2007, 9 international Internet giants such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Apple, are involved.“I don’t want to live in a society where to do those things; I don’t want to live in a world where every word and deed is recorded.” Snowden says. Prism door events let us begin to focus on information security unprecedented.03. Bio security risks caused by transgenic technologyGenetically modified food is a controversial topic in biotechnology today. It cannot be denied that GM technology can increase crop yield, but the potential negative effects to the environment and human beings make people shudder at the same time. Scientific experiments show that the borer’s fatality rate resulting by genetically modified corn is 60%, and but also the mature period of lacewings was delay three days by it. But, the lacewings are insects, by which the farmers multiply to fight bollworms and aphids and other pests.This means that genetically modified foods do not distinguish between insectpests and beneficial insects, of course, cannot distinguish between man and pests. Even more serious is that once a harmful gene has been transferred to other plants or animals may cause in the DNA transcription and expression, and will be passed on inevitably, this process is cannot be reversed.04. Nuclear energy utilization and nuclear safety crisisThe nuclear leak incident which happen in Fukushima of Japan in 2011, gave the world great damage and fear.Recent news reports that the radioactive material from Japan has reached the North American coast, and the pollution from previously identified sites is increasing.Bue Silieer, a marine radio-chemist of United States, has tested the water samples collected from Pacific Ocean. He claims that it is still a radioactive leak in Fukushima nuclear power plant accident of Japan four years later. Bue Silieer wrote in an e-mail: “despite the fact that coastal radioactive contamination levels are still far lower than the Government’s human and marine safety margins, but the radiation level that we need to more closely monitor the pollution level of the Pacific Ocean. ”05.Conclusion: emphasis the education on ethics of science and technologyScience and technology is a double-edged sword, this idea has become the consensus of the people. In order to overcome the negative effects of high-tech activities, we must pay high attention to the research and education on ethics of science and technology when we developing science and technology .We need to adjust the relationship between the man and man, man and artifacts, man and nature, to control our technology action and district the law relative, so that we may have the chance to reducing the negative effects and avoiding the dangerous of high-techactivity.Reference1.The Medawar Lecture 1998: Is Science Dangerous? Author(s): Lewis Wolpert Source: Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, V ol. 360, No. 1458 (Jun.29, 2005),2.Two Approaches to Information Security Doctoral Research, Armstrong, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013, 406:172-179.3.Developing GM super cassava for improvedhealth and food security: future challenges inAfrica, Ademola A Adenle1, Ogugua C Aworh, Richard Akromah4and Govindan Parayil,Adenle et al. 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