Currenty there is a trend towards the use of alternative forms of medicine. However at best these methods are ineffective, and at worse they may be dangerous. To what extend do you agree or disagree with this statement?
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In recent years, there has been a growing distrust towards the major pharmaceutical companies among the public, which in turn has lead to a rebirth of herbal and quack medicine. Many believe this is a potentially hazardous development as alternative medicine scarcely works, and can often do more harm than good to patients. I am an advocate of this, as both the abandonment of scientific medicine and the adoption of quackery can have negative consequences to patients.
To begin with, expensive prices and overprescription of medications have led some people to doubt the intentions of big Pharma companies, causing people to turn to other options of treatments. However, even though modern medicine is overpriced, its efficacy has been proven by extensive experimentation and research, and so abandoning such proven treatment methods leads to a lack of recovery of patients. To illustrate, recent scares about the effectiveness and dangers of vaccination have lead to a drop in vaccine use, which has subsequently been followed by an increase in diseases that were controlled previously by vaccination.
In addition, quack medication itself is often harmful and at times even poisonous. Such medicine usually lack significant scientific backing, and are usually based on outdated traditional practices or faulty research. Because of this, they often contain harmful substances like steroids that further worsen the patient’s condition. For instance, one popular substance in alternative medicine is called amygdalin, which supposedly has anti cancer properties. However, research shows that not only does it have no beneficial efficacy, overuse of amygdalin can cause cyanide poisoning or even death. For these reasons such practices should be avoided.
In conclusion, I wholeheartedly agree with the notion that the recent resurge of alternative medicine is a negative development. Such practices are dangerous and misguided, and scientific medicine will continue to be the superior form of patient care.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, so, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1721.0 1615.20841683 107% => OK
No of words: 306.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.62418300654 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17512713999 2.80592935109 113% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.62091503268 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 549.9 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.7408962728 49.4020404114 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.928571429 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8571428571 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.14285714286 7.06120827912 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.67935871743 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 3.9879759519 326% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.115631806528 0.244688304435 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0395864736916 0.084324248473 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0272695095985 0.0667982634062 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.070325302225 0.151304729494 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0242625293988 0.056905535591 43% => 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: 16.0 13.0946893788 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 50.2224549098 66% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.32 12.4159519038 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.15 8.58950901804 118% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 78.4519038076 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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