Project Grey Matter

Brief

Since its inception, scientific research has always strived to take humanity to a constantly evolving state of advancement and betterment for its own future glory. This is of course not void of its fair share of setbacks, controversy and mistakes that had resulted from the many years of intensive research, trials and errors that were somewhat necessary in order to find long awaited solutions and breakthroughs in which to overcome human dilemmas that have crippled and restricted mankind for far too long. In the current era of today, there are still plenty of new scientific research’s being conducted by numerous scientists from all over the world to tackle a wide variety of human flaws and limitations of which some of the most extreme of these would include scientific research into cloning, genetically modified crops, stem cells, genetic modification and nanotechnology all of which may very well greatly contribute to the solution process of a range of current worldwide issues such as the global food crisis, racial tensions, curing incurable diseases, correcting permanent physical disfigurements as well as to strive for the overall betterment of the evolution of humanity in general. However, such researches have also since conjured its fair share of unfavourable criticism, controversy and even alarm from the world community in regards to its application mainly due to a variety of opposing views that deem the meddling into such areas of science as playing god, disgusting, unnatural, immoral or just fundamentally wrong. It is these types of aggressive opposition from various peoples and parties from around the globe that have so far greatly stunted the research process into such fields and has since prevented those subject matters from being fully explored and yet this also denies the world public from ever being able to utilize the possible benefits that such unconventional scientific research’s might yet be able to contribute to humanity.

 

To enable new unconventional scientific research to be fully explored and conducted for the benefit of all humanity (without stringent restrictions imposed upon it yet it would still constitute as legally and morally acceptable conduct), an international jurisdiction that supports and protects the progression of such experiments must first be established. Therefore an international jurisdiction that is open minded enough to allow such activities and concepts to flourish must initially be secured with or without a financial agreement in place. It must be remembered however that the chosen jurisdiction for this particular purpose should not ever be given the opportunity to exploit the successes of these experiments for their own ends or political agendas. It would also be crucial to ensure that this international jurisdiction has enough global influence to protect its own interests from being overshadowed by other more powerful world sovereignties as this is vital for the existence and continuity of this project. If any such world territory is unavailable to be utilized for this particular purpose, then perhaps it will be necessary to take a much more drastic approach to secure one (see Project International Zones). Once all this has been established and finalised, the next hurdle to overcome would involve the financing and funding of this establishment. It must be remembered that because the results produced from these scientific researches’ are to be utilized for the benefit of all humanity and not just a select and privileged few, the funding of this project must be restricted to charitable international organisations and individual contributions from the world community whilst strongly avoiding any such financing offered by any global entity that may have a hidden monetary interest in it. After the funding aspect of this project has been fulfilled, the issue of locating and recruiting highly qualified scientists and researchers worldwide to run and manage this global facility must then be addressed. The main challenge in this would be that as this is a non profit global project, the professionals that are entrusted with the task of maintaining the facility would also have to be volunteers albeit fully qualified and experienced ones. A system that could somehow ensure a considerable yet non monetary reward for their services would thus need to be structured and offered to applicants before any scientific professionals would want to apply as a fully fledged volunteer for this particular purpose. Nevertheless, it would seem quite clear that once the jurisdiction, funding and human resource elements of this project have been established properly, in depth and highly concentrated scientific research into genetic modification, stem cell research, nanotechnology and the like would then be able to fully proceed and ultimately produce invaluable benefits to humanity as incurable diseases will be cured, permanent physical disabilities such as paralysis will become reversible, racism and sexism in the world will become obsolete via available optional genetic modification procedures, food shortages around the globe will be a thing of the past and drug and alcohol addicts will be able to permanently break free of their addictions. But despite the endless benefits that this project (once established) will be able to offer to humanity, there will always be members of the world community that will strongly oppose any and all forms of unnatural scientific research regardless of how morally or politically correct it may eventually prove to be…