Chapter 11, Problem 1SI

Explanation of Solution

Extent of responsibility of the researcher in the way their research is used:

The research done by a researcher is a tool, like any tool with right intentions it can be used for prosperity and enrichment the society. In hands of a person with wrong intension it can cauesa large scale devastantion.

• Today most of the researches requires a good amount of funding.
• The companies, organizations or the goverment that provide this funding have their own interests from the research.
• The researcher do not have full autonomy over the way its research is going to be used.
• But if any kind of destruction is caused by any research than, the roots of this destruction do trace back to the reseacher.

Thus researcher is to be partially blamed for the way his research is being used, as once a research is complete and if it holds a great potential to cause a large scale catastrophy,than throughout the history man kind people has have used it for destrucyive purposes...