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18 news of the week@SCIENCE之二：美国学术界呼吁恢复对枪支暴力事件的研究

本周第二条，原文链接：http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6117/256.1.full.pdf

Washington, D.C. 2

Appeal to Restore U.S. Gun Violence Research
美国学术界呼吁恢复对枪支暴力事件的研究

More than 100 academic leaders signed a letter asking the Obama administration to lift a virtual ban on U.S.-funded gun violence research. The 10 January letter, organized by the University of Chicago’s social science group, the Crime Lab, was sent to Vice President Joseph Biden, head of the White House’s new Gun Violence Commission. The letter says that “politically-motivated constraints” sought by pro-gun lobbies and adopted by Congress in the mid-1990s have cut short a promising area of study. After 1997, funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health dried up.

100多位学术界精英联名上书，要求奥巴马政府能够解除对政府资助枪支暴力事件研究的禁令。这封1月10的建言信，由芝加哥大学社会科学小组—犯罪研究实验室牵头组织，后来被送交到副总统Joseph Biden手里，Joseph Biden同时兼任白宫新一届枪支暴力委员会主席。信中说在上世纪90年代中期拥枪派所谋求的“政治利益驱动的限制”，也得到了国会的许可，这样导致本来是一个很有前景的研究领域突然中断。1997年之后，来自于美国卫生研究院和疾病防控中心的资金源彻底枯竭。

“Right now the research community is hampered in its ability to inform policymakers about the expected benefits and costs of different policy approaches because of politically motivated limits on data access, and substantial federal under-funding of research on gun violence,” writes Crime Lab Director Jens Ludwig, a co-author of the letter, in an e-mail to Science. The Biden panel is weighing policies in response to the December mass shooting of schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut; its recommendations are due this week.

“学术界本来能够对不同政策方针所预期的效益和损失给政策制定者提供咨询，但是当前由于政治利益驱动的限制，科学家们拿不到相关的数据也没有政府资助的枪支暴力事件的研究，所以学术界目前丧失去了这项给政策制定着提供咨询的能力。”犯罪研究实验主任Jens Ludwig在给Science杂志的一封电子邮件中如是说，他也是该建言信的作者之一。12月份发生在康涅狄格牛顿镇的校园枪击案促使Biden的委员会正在对不同的政策进行仔细考量；该委员会本周之前必须提交该政策的议案。

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