Currently there is a trend towards the use of alternative forms of medicine However at best these methods are ineffective and at worst they may be dangerous To what extent do you agree with this statement

Essay topics:

Currently there is a trend towards the use of alternative forms of medicine. However, at best these methods are ineffective, and at worst they may be dangerous.
To what extent do you agree with this statement?

As more and more people start to looking for alternative medicines for costly and incurable disease like cancer, there is a popular view that these methods could be either ineffective or even a threat to the user. However, I disagree with this view.

Admittedly, there are obvious risks for alternative medicine users. The reason behind these risks posed by these unconventional medical treatments is the efficacy is or cannot be proven, which means there is not scientific way to prove it actually works or not. In addition to this side, there also exist potential danger to users, as the medicine they took may contain harmful substances which could hinder the process of normal treatments.

However, what we could not ignore is that small amount of these unconventional treatment may help the patients in a way beyond existing scientific explanations. Indeed, the development of science is full of struggle to conventions, and it also applied to some alternative method of medical treatments. To put it in other words, just because we cannot prove the alternatives are right, does not mean they are wrong. It is possible that we are actually on the way to understand it. A good example is the traditional Chinese medical treatment, which was denied by western academics for centuries, is now acknowledged as a branch of medical science. And more importantly studies show that it is in fact an excellent way in treating chronic inflammatory diseases.

To summarize, I think is reasonable for some people to keep a skeptical attitude towards alternative medicines in general, but there are also great alternatives which could be helpful to patients and we definitely need to do more research on it.

Votes
Average: 6.9 (2 votes)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...initely need to do more research on it.
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, look, may, so, i think, in addition, in fact, in general, in other words

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1431.0 1615.20841683 89% => OK
No of words: 280.0 315.596192385 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11071428571 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93742346839 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.557142857143 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 454.5 506.74238477 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.384769539078 260% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.5121374653 49.4020404114 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.25 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3333333333 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.83333333333 7.06120827912 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.148054171162 0.244688304435 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0569191281826 0.084324248473 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0430822739433 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0962567187193 0.151304729494 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0150315559677 0.056905535591 26% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.0946893788 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 78.4519038076 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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