Stress.

[Gilrandir]

I think that not researching an area to not know is analogous to not having an armed forces so no one else will have one.

I believe that there are some fields that are to be closed for further research. At least till humanity grows up in terms of values and priorities and learns "to handle with care" the results which are likely to be obtained.

However, it is never the scientist who uses their work for nefarious purposes. The government sees knowledge as an asset, a tool they use to further their own agenda. That is dangerous. American Congress is filled to the brim with nothing but businessmen and lawyers. No teachers, doctors, engineers, scientists or philosophers. This trend isn't only in America.

Yet scientists can't be held blameless in what governments do with their discoveries and inventions. Otherwise it will sound like: "I invented the nuclear bomb. I deserve a Nobel prize. Who cares what will happen to the bomb next".