Transgenic rhesus monkeys carrying the human MCPH1 gene copies show human-like neoteny of brain development.National Science Review https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwz043
サルの脳に人間の遺伝子、中国の研究者が移植実験 批判も (2019.04.13 Sat posted at 13:18 JST CNN.co.jp) 中国の研究グループがこのほど、人間の脳の発達に関わる遺伝子をサルに移植することで認知機能を向上させたとの論文を発表し、科学界を二分する論争を引き起こしている。
「猿の惑星」が現実に? 猿に人間の遺伝子を移植、中国の研究チーム(2019年04月15日 BBC NEWS JAPAN)中国の科学者が、猿に人間の遺伝子を移植し「遺伝子組み換え猿」を作り出していた。先月、中国の科学誌「ナショナル・サイエンス・レビュー」に掲載された論文で明らかになった。昆明動物研究所と中国科学院の研究員が、米ノースカロライナ大学の研究員と共同で行なったもの。人間の知能がどのように進化していったのかを突き止めるため、アカゲザルの脳に人間の遺伝子「MCPH1」を移植したという。
The purpose of life is to hydrogenate carbon dioxide. (Michael Russel) Life is nothing but an electron looking for a plae to rest.(Albert Szent-Györgyi)
What is the Purpose of Life? (Big Picture Ep. 5/5)
11 YouTube Channels Every Science Nerd Should Follow Get smart while wasting time on the internet. By Eliza Sankar-Gorton 09/16/2015 05:38 pm ET Updated Sep 17, 2015 HUFFPOST
JoVEは査読付きの論文で、雑誌のインパクトファクターが1.184もあるなんて、論文業績的にはずいぶんと魅力的ではありませんか?原著論文一報出せば、もれなくもう一報ついてくるなんて、素敵。Buy one, get one free!じゃないですけど、Publish one, get another at the cost of $2,400! です。
Elon Musk unveils first tourist for SpaceX ‘Moon loop’ (BBC NEWS 18 September 2018) Elon Musk’s company SpaceX has unveiled the first private passenger it plans to fly around the Moon. Japanese billionaire and online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa, 42, announced: “I choose to go to the Moon.” The mission is planned for 2023, and would be the first lunar journey by humans since 1972. But it is reliant on a rocket that has not been built yet, and Mr Musk cautioned: “It’s not 100% certain we can bring this to flight.”
The John Maddox Prize recognises the work of individuals who promote sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest, facing difficulty or hostility in doing so. (The John Maddox Prize, Sense about science)
The world must accept that the HPV vaccine is safe. But the science alone will not be enough to build public and political confidence, says Heidi Larson.(NATURE COLUMN 01 December 2015) 削除されたコメント欄に寄せられていた42のコメント(アーカイブ)
Women’s health champion, Dr Riko Muranaka, awarded the 2017 John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science (Mark Staniland, NPG プレスリリース 30 November 2017)
Q&A: Japanese physician snares prize for battling antivaccine campaigners (By Dennis Normile, ScienceMag.org news Nov. 30, 2017 , 2:00 PM):”A Japanese physician and writer who is under fire from antivaccination groups for defending a cervical cancer vaccine won an international award today for her perseverance.”
BBC Mixes Up Two Asian Women During Cringeworthy Radio Interview (By Kimberly Yam, HUFFPOST/MEDIA 12/04/2017 06:17 pm ET) During a Friday segment on the radio program, host Jenni Murray introduced her guest as Japanese doctor Riko Muranaka, who won the 2017 John Maddox Prize for “promoting science” about the HPV vaccine. However, the woman Murray was talking to on-air wasn’t Muranaka at all, but Trinh T. Minh-ha, a Vietnamese filmmaker. “Riko, why did you pursue this subject?” Murray asks Minh-ha, who remains silent.
World’s First Atomic Bomb – Manhattan Project Documentary – Films
「はだしのゲン」の被爆体験
Peter Jennings – Hiroshima: Why the Bomb was Dropped (1995)
参考
Voices of the Manhattan Project: “A public archive of our oral history collections of Manhattan Project veterans and their families. Our online collection features 400 audio/visual interviews with Manhattan Project workers and their families, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, General Leslie R. Groves, Glenn Seaborg, Hans and Rose Bethe, George and Vera Kistiakowsky, and many more.”
Xenopus laevis stage series Digitized images and developmental data from Nieuwkoop and Faber (1994) Normal Table of Xenopus laevis (Daudin). Garland Publishing Inc, New York ISBN 0-8153-1896-0. (xenbase.org)
トランプ大統領の意向を反映したアメリカの2018年度の予算案概要が2017年3月16日に発表されました。軍事費が増強された一方で、環境保護庁(EPA)の予算が大幅に削減(31.5%)され、NIH(National Institutes of Health;国立衛生研究所)の予算も18%削減されています。科学に対するトランプ大統領の無知、無理解ぶりは大統領選のときから危惧されていましたが、ついに、恐れていたことが現実になってしまいました。この予算概要を記した文書の、NIHを管轄する保健福祉省(Department of Health and Human Services, HHS)に関するページを見て見ると、
The President’s 2018 Budget requests $69.0 billion for HHS, a $15.1 billion or 17.9 percent decrease from the 2017 annualized CR level.
HHSの予算が全体として17.9%減となっています。その中で、NIHに関する記述を見ると、
Reduces the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) spending relative to the 2017 annualized CR level by $5.8 billion to $25.9 billion. The Budget includes a major reorganization of NIH’s Institutes and Centers to help focus resources on the highest priority research and training activities, including: eliminating the Fogarty International Center; consolidating the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality within NIH; and other consolidations and structural changes across NIH organizations and activities. The Budget also reduces administrative costs and rebalance Federal contributions to research funding.
58億ドル(6537億円)が削減されて(-18%)、予算259億ドル(2兆9189億円)になっています。医科学分野を対象するNIHに対して、その他の科学分野で年間70億ドルもの研究予算を配分しているNational Science Foundation (NSF;アメリカ国立科学財団)については、今回の予算概要の文書内に記述がありません。
トランプ政権の予算案、「勝者と敗者」明暗くっきり (The Huffington Post | 執筆者: Zach Carter , Arthur Delaney , Sam Stein 投稿日: 2017年03月17日 16時26分 JST) :”アメリカのトランプ政権は3月15日、2018年会計年度(2017年10月-18年9月)予算案の概要を発表した。”
Trump’s Revealing Budget So much political drama over such a small part of the federal fisc. (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Updated March 16, 2017 9:55 p.m. ET)(動画Opinion Journal Video視聴可。本文は購読者のみ閲覧可)
US science agencies face deep cuts in Trump budget The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institutes of Health are big losers — but planetary science at NASA stands to gain.(Nature News Sara Reardon, Jeff Tollefson, Alexandra Witze & Erin Ross 16 March 2017):”When it comes to science, there are few winners in US President Donald Trump’s first budget proposal. The plan, released on 16 March, calls for double-digit cuts for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).”
President’s Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says (AAAS 16 March 2017 Anne Q. Hoy):”President Donald Trump’s discretionary budget proposal would “cripple” the leading role the United States plays in advancing science and technology and blunt the economic benefits the nation reaps from such innovations, said Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.”
Read the full White House budget blueprint By ABC NEWS Mar 16, 2017, 9:26 AM ET: Watch OMB director discusses Trump’s new budget proposal. OMB Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters Wednesday, “We wrote it using the president’s own words. We went through his speeches, we went through articles that have been written about his policies … and we turned those policies into numbers.”
Trump Rolls Out MONSTROUS New Budget (The Young Turks, YOUTUBE 2017/03/16) “Trump has unveiled his new budget. It’s great for rich people and horrible for everyone else. “
集会報告 国際科学広報に関するワークショップ2015(岡田 小枝子, 名取 薫, 小泉 周 著者情報 ジャーナル フリー HTML 2015 年 58 巻 3 号 p. 224-227)国際科学広報に関するワークショップ2015が,沖 縄科学技術大学院大学(Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University: OIST)と科学技 術広報研究会(Japan Association of Communication for Science and Technology: JACST)が主催,大学研 究力強化ネットワーク(Research University Network of Japan: RUN)が協力という形で,2015年3月19 ~ 20日に,沖縄科学技術大学院大学(沖縄県国頭郡恩納村谷茶1919-1)OISTメインキャンパスにて開催され た。
実務者同士が情報を交換し,国際的な 情報発信を実践する場やコミュニティーが徐々に形成 されていった(表1)。その主要な場として,自然科学 研究機構が国内の15の学術研究機関とともに立ち上 げた「大学研究力強化ネットワーク」注2)や科学広報 の関係者が集まる「科学技術広報研究会」(Japan Association of Communication for Science and Technology: JACST)4)が挙げられる。(日英米の比較からみる研究成果の国際情報発信 高祖 歩美 2017 年 60 巻 6 号 p. 420-428 PDF))
レスター大学(University of Leicester)の広報(Press Office)がプレスリリースの書き方(How to Write a Press Release)を詳細に説明しており文章のスタイルを学ぶのに非常に役立ちます。
Journalists are looking for a hook which will form the main focus of their story. They like to know outcomes of research and they prefer a human angle to ensure the story has a public interest. (How to Write a Press Release)
EurekAlert!is an online, global news service operated by AAAS, the science society. EurekAlert! provides a central place through which universities, medical centers, journals, government agencies, corporations and other organizations engaged in research can bring their news to the media. EurekAlert! also offers its news and resources to the public. EurekAlert! features news and resources focused on all areas of science, medicine and technology.
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“Science allows us to communicate across the seas and fly above the clouds, to cure disease and understand the cosmos, but those same discoveries can be turned into ever more efficient killing machines.” (科学のおかげで我々は海を越えてコミュニケーションを取り、雲より高く空を飛び、病気を治し、宇宙を理解することができる。しかし、これらの同じ発見が、今まで以上に効果的な殺人装置へと変わり得る。) – Barack Obama
“Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us. The scientific revolution that led to the splitting of an atom requires a moral revolution as well.” (科学技術の進歩は、人間社会の進歩を伴わなければ、我々を破滅させる。原子核を分裂させるに至った科学革命には、倫理的な革命も同時に必要である) – Barack Obama
[Obama’s speech in Hiroshima] オバマ大統領 広島でのスピーチ
Text of President Obama’s Speech in Hiroshima, Japan (ニューヨークタイムズ MAY 27, 2016)
Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself.
Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima? We come to ponder a terrible force unleashed in a not-so-distant past. We come to mourn the dead, including over 100,000 Japanese men, women and children, thousands of Koreans, a dozen Americans held prisoner.
Their souls speak to us. They ask us to look inward, to take stock of who we are and what we might become.
It is not the fact of war that sets Hiroshima apart. Artifacts tell us that violent conflict appeared with the very first man. Our early ancestors having learned to make blades from flint and spears from wood used these tools not just for hunting but against their own kind. On every continent, the history of civilization is filled with war, whether driven by scarcity of grain or hunger for gold, compelled by nationalist fervor or religious zeal. Empires have risen and fallen. Peoples have been subjugated and liberated. And at each juncture, innocents have suffered, a countless toll, their names forgotten by time.The world war that reached its brutal end in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was fought among the wealthiest and most powerful of nations. Their civilizations had given the world great cities and magnificent art. Their thinkers had advanced ideas of justice and harmony and truth. And yet the war grew out of the same base instinct for domination or conquest that had caused conflicts among the simplest tribes, an old pattern amplified by new capabilities and without new constraints.
In the span of a few years, some 60 million people would die. Men, women, children, no different than us. Shot, beaten, marched, bombed, jailed, starved, gassed to death. There are many sites around the world that chronicle this war, memorials that tell stories of courage and heroism, graves and empty camps that echo of unspeakable depravity.Yet in the image of a mushroom cloud that rose into these skies, we are most starkly reminded of humanity’s core contradiction. How the very spark that marks us as a species, our thoughts, our imagination, our language, our toolmaking, our ability to set ourselves apart from nature and bend it to our will — those very things also give us the capacity for unmatched destruction.
How often does material advancement or social innovation blind us to this truth? How easily we learn to justify violence in the name of some higher cause.
Every great religion promises a pathway to love and peace and righteousness, and yet no religion has been spared from believers who have claimed their faith as a license to kill.
Nations arise telling a story that binds people together in sacrifice and cooperation, allowing for remarkable feats. But those same stories have so often been used to oppress and dehumanize those who are different.
Science allows us to communicate across the seas and fly above the clouds, to cure disease and understand the cosmos, but those same discoveries can be turned into ever more efficient killing machines.
The wars of the modern age teach us this truth. Hiroshima teaches this truth. Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us. The scientific revolution that led to the splitting of an atom requires a moral revolution as well.
That is why we come to this place. We stand here in the middle of this city and force ourselves to imagine the moment the bomb fell. We force ourselves to feel the dread of children confused by what they see. We listen to a silent cry. We remember all the innocents killed across the arc of that terrible war and the wars that came before and the wars that would follow.
Mere words cannot give voice to such suffering. But we have a shared responsibility to look directly into the eye of history and ask what we must do differently to curb such suffering again.
Some day, the voices of the hibakusha will no longer be with us to bear witness. But the memory of the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, must never fade. That memory allows us to fight complacency. It fuels our moral imagination. It allows us to change.
And since that fateful day, we have made choices that give us hope. The United States and Japan have forged not only an alliance but a friendship that has won far more for our people than we could ever claim through war. The nations of Europe built a union that replaced battlefields with bonds of commerce and democracy. Oppressed people and nations won liberation. An international community established institutions and treaties that work to avoid war and aspire to restrict and roll back and ultimately eliminate the existence of nuclear weapons.
Still, every act of aggression between nations, every act of terror and corruption and cruelty and oppression that we see around the world shows our work is never done. We may not be able to eliminate man’s capacity to do evil, so nations and the alliances that we form must possess the means to defend ourselves. But among those nations like my own that hold nuclear stockpiles, we must have the courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue a world without them.
We may not realize this goal in my lifetime, but persistent effort can roll back the possibility of catastrophe. We can chart a course that leads to the destruction of these stockpiles. We can stop the spread to new nations and secure deadly materials from fanatics.
And yet that is not enough. For we see around the world today how even the crudest rifles and barrel bombs can serve up violence on a terrible scale. We must change our mind-set about war itself. To prevent conflict through diplomacy and strive to end conflicts after they’ve begun. To see our growing interdependence as a cause for peaceful cooperation and not violent competition. To define our nations not by our capacity to destroy but by what we build. And perhaps, above all, we must reimagine our connection to one another as members of one human race.
For this, too, is what makes our species unique. We’re not bound by genetic code to repeat the mistakes of the past. We can learn. We can choose. We can tell our children a different story, one that describes a common humanity, one that makes war less likely and cruelty less easily accepted.
We see these stories in the hibakusha. The woman who forgave a pilot who flew the plane that dropped the atomic bomb because she recognized that what she really hated was war itself. The man who sought out families of Americans killed here because he believed their loss was equal to his own.
My own nation’s story began with simple words: All men are created equal and endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Realizing that ideal has never been easy, even within our own borders, even among our own citizens. But staying true to that story is worth the effort. It is an ideal to be strived for, an ideal that extends across continents and across oceans. The irreducible worth of every person, the insistence that every life is precious, the radical and necessary notion that we are part of a single human family — that is the story that we all must tell.
That is why we come to Hiroshima. So that we might think of people we love. The first smile from our children in the morning. The gentle touch from a spouse over the kitchen table. The comforting embrace of a parent. We can think of those things and know that those same precious moments took place here, 71 years ago.
Those who died, they are like us. Ordinary people understand this, I think. They do not want more war. They would rather that the wonders of science be focused on improving life and not eliminating it. When the choices made by nations, when the choices made by leaders, reflect this simple wisdom, then the lesson of Hiroshima is done.
The world was forever changed here, but today the children of this city will go through their day in peace. What a precious thing that is. It is worth protecting, and then extending to every child. That is a future we can choose, a future in which Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known not as the dawn of atomic warfare but as the start of our own moral awakening.
As the federal government and state elected leaders launched legal battles over North Carolina’s controversial bathroom law Monday, UNC system President Margaret Spellings said the university is “truly caught in the middle.” … “Our first responsibility as a University is to serve our students, faculty, and staff and provide a welcoming and safe place for all,” Spellings said in a written statement. “The University takes its obligation to comply with federal non-discrimination laws very seriously. We also must adhere to laws duly enacted by the State’s General Assembly and Governor, however. HB2 remains the law of the State, and the University has no independent power to change that legal reality.” … In 2014-15, the UNC system received $1.4 billion in federal funds. (UNC President Spellings: UNC system caught in middle of state, federal fight on HB2. The News & Observer By Jane Stancill May 9, 2016 6:32 PM)
The United States and North Carolina tangled over transgender rights on Monday, with the Justice Department filing a civil rights lawsuit over the state’s so-called bathroom bill and state officials defiantly filing suits against the federal directive to stop the implementation of the controversial legislation.
Obama Administration Issues Guidance on Transgender Bathroom Use in Schools (Wall Street Journal By Devlin Barrett Updated May 13, 2016 10:20 a.m. ET):”The Obama administration Friday told educators around the country they should allow transgender students to use the bathroom and locker facilities of their chosen gender, saying federal law bars discrimination against such students. …”
NC Gov. defends “bathroom bill” Published on May 11, 2016 North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, who signed the “bathroom law”, tells Jake Tapper that HB2 protects the privacy of non-transgender people at public facilities.
Published on May 10, 2016 Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced that the Justice Department has filed a complaint against the state of North Carolina, the University of North Carolina (UNC) and the North Carolina Department of Public Safety (DPS) alleging that they are discriminating against transgender individuals in violation of federal law as a result of the state’s compliance with and implementation of House Bill 2 (H.B. 2). H.B. 2 requires public agencies to treat transgender individuals, whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth, differently from similarly situated non-transgender individuals.
Published on May 9, 2016 North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory explained the state’s filing of a lawsuit against the U.S. Justice Department over the Department’s designation of “House Bill Two” as violating the US Civil Rights Act. Federal officials have filed their own lawsuit.
Why LGBT Advocates Say Bathroom ‘Predators’ Argument Is a Red Herring (TIME Katy Steinmetz @katysteinmetz May 2, 2016):”It’s become a common refrain in recent months: Allowing transgender people to use the restroom that aligns with their gender identity will end up letting male sexual predators into women’s bathrooms. …”
The Bathroom Bill Battle | All In | MSNBC Published on Apr 25, 2016
ざけんじゃねー!トランスジェンダーとバスルーム事情とアメリカの今後の行方 (New York Niche April 13, 2016):”…今年の3月には、ノースカロライナのシャーロット市が、トランスジェンダーの人々が自分たちの性別認識と一致する公衆トイレを使う権利を保護しようとする独自の条例を通過させたことにより、ノースカロライナ州議会が即座に反応し、HB2(the House Bill 2 or the barhroom bill)の項目により、トランスジェンダーの公衆トイレ使用時には「出生証明証に記載された性別に応じてトイレを使うよう義務付ける」という法案を上院下院ともに通過させた。反対派がいたのにも関わらず、3月23日の夜、ノースカロライナの州知事パット・マックロリーは、あっさりこれにサインをした。…”
Spellings worries about HB2 impact on UNC system (WRAL.com Posted April 8):”The statewide discrimination law that lawmakers passed last month could have a “chill” on University of North Carolina campuses, UNC President Margaret Spellings said Friday.
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UNC’s Folt declines comment after system president says HB2 will be enforced (By WNCN Staff Published: April 7, 2016, 1:32 pm Updated: April 8, 2016, 12:12 pm):”RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – A number of groups and students in North Carolina are upset after University of North Carolina system President Margaret Spellings announced Thursday that the system will follow House Bill 2, the controversial bill that prevents transgender people from using the restrooms that corresponds to their gender identity. …”
LGBTQ community fights HB2 (Mary Cox April 6, 2016):”North Carolina’s newest legislation—known as HB2—reverses a Charlotte ordinance, which extended rights to people who are gay or transgender. Carrboro’s LGBTQ community plans to fight this bill until laws are changed. …”
UNC faculty speak out against HB2 the same day the law is taken to court (dailytarheel.com Hayley Fowler 03/29/16 12:06am):”UNC-system faculty and students are outraged in the aftermath of House Bill 2, and they want the General Assembly and Gov. Pat McCrory to know. More than 50 UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, all of whom are graduates of or currently participating in the University’s Academic Leadership Program for faculty leaders on campus, signed a statement against the bill Tuesday — just as two civil rights organizations and three North Carolina residents filed a lawsuit naming McCrory, the UNC system and Board of Governors Chairperson Louis Bissette as defendants. …”
トランスジェンダーのトイレ問題、全米で論争 (Wall Street Journal By VALERIE BAUERLEIN 2016 年 3 月 25 日 17:15 JST):”… ノースカロライナ州は23日、男女別が明記されている公共施設について、出生時の性別に基づいた利用に限定する法律を全米で初めて成立させた。超党派の団体である全米州議会協議会(NCSL)によると、他に少なくとも13州が似たような法律の制定を検討している。…”
House Bill 2 (North Carolina General Assembly 03/23/2016)
Schools Are Switching To Gender-Neutral Bathrooms Published on Sep 11, 2015. A San Francisco elementary school has began to eliminate gender-assigned bathrooms for their students. Of the 365 students at the school about 8 kids don’t identify with their assigned gender.
Is It Illegal for a Man to Use the Ladies’ Room? ( North Carolina Criminal Law A UNC School of Government Blog Posted on May. 6, 2015, 9:36 am by Jeff Welty):”In Charlotte, there is a controversy over whether a transgendered person should use the bathroom assigned to his or her biological sex or to the sex with which he or she identifies. The Charlotte Observer has the story here. This post doesn’t address that issue directly, but instead concerns a related question that the story prompted me to ponder: is it illegal for a man to use the ladies’ room? There doesn’t seem to be much law directly addressing this topic, or the similar if not identical issue of whether it is illegal for a woman to use the men’s room. …”
【発言全文】「同性愛は個人的趣味」 支援を疑問視する杉並区議の発言に批判 (YAHOO! JAPAN ニュース/ BuzzFeed Japan 2月21日(日)8時18分配信):”東京都杉並区の小林ゆみ区議が「同性愛は個人的趣味」「自治体が時間と予算を使う必要があるのか」などと議会で発言した。これに対し、当事者たちから「趣味の話ではない」などと反発が出ている。 … 小林区議の性的少数者に関する質問全文 杉並区議会・小林ゆみ議員(自民・無所属・維新クラブ) 昨年に実施された電通総研の調査によると、日本人の約13人に1人が性的マイノリティであるという結果が出ています。今までよりもそう言った話題が俎上に登ることが多くなったこともあり、区としても実態把握に努める必要があるのではないか、と思えるほどに性的マイノリティの人権を守るための運動は日本でも広がってきています。…ここで整理をしておきたいのですが、レズ・ゲイ・バイは性的指向であるのに対し、トランスジェンダーは性的自認であり、医師の認定が必要である明らかな障害であると言えます。トランスジェンダーの方は法律的に保護する必要があり、世間的な目からの誤解を解かねばなりませんので、彼らの人権のために区が啓蒙活動をするのは問題ないと考えます。また、トランスジェンダーの方は、障害であると認められているからこそ、性別を変更できるなどの法的な救済策が定められています。それに対し、レズ・ゲイ・バイは性的指向であり、現時点では障害であるかどうかが医学的にはっきりしていません。そもそも地方自治体が現段階で、性的指向、すなわち個人的趣味の分野にまで多くの時間と予算を費やすことは、本当に必要なのでしょうか。その前提に基づき、幾つか質問をしていきます。…”