现代生物技术的宣传与普及:科学家的职责——在国内首次生物技术与现代农业科普与传播研讨会上的讲话

Publicity and Popularization of Modern Biotech:Duties of Scientists——Remark at First Domestic Symposia on Science Popularization of Biotech and Modern Agriculture

与转基因相关的现代生物技术等科学问题以及如何对公众进行科普宣传等问题,已引起人们的高度关注。作为科学家应该向公众、向政策的制定者来传播科学家自身关注和从事的科学问题;应该加强对科学家、公众及大众媒体、政府的政策制定者三者关系的认识、交流与沟通,及时解决出现的问题。转基因技术与传统育种技术是一脉相承的,其本质都是通过获得优良基因对作物进行遗传改良。科学家在进行相关研究时必须遵守相应的科学伦理规范和相应的科学准则,必须严格自律。科学家要通过推动一系列的研讨和合作,探求相关重要问题的解决方案,增强政府官员和公众对植物科学在解决这些问题上重要性的认识,使全社会的公众来关注今天的植物科学和农业给未来的人类以及我们的地球所产生的影响。

Modern biotech related to genetic modification （GM） and ways to popularize science have aroused the attention from the public. Scientists should popularize the scientific research that they are focusing on to the public and policy-makers and they should also strengthen the awareness and communi- cation among scientists, public and media and policy-makers from governments so as to rapidly work out the problems that may come along. GM technology and traditional breeding techniques are from the same origin, both of which are to undertake crop genetic improvement by using elite genes. When doing scien- tific research, scientists must abide by relevant scientific ethical norms and relevant scientific principles and selLdiscipline. Through a series of discussion and cooperation, scientists should search for solutions to those important problems,which will strengthen the awareness from government offieials and publics for the importance of plant science in resolving the above problems so that the whole society will pay more attention to the impact of plant science and agrieulture today on the human being of the future as well as our earth.