governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear.
The author of the statement claim that the governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear. Many of us will argue that it will hold all the time, while others will counter this by providing example. In my essay, I will highlight both the side of the argument and will provide strong reasoning for the same.
Scientific research are very crucial for a country for their scientific and socail development. The money provided by the government to commit scientific research is increasing from past many years. And if someone recommend that the governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear, we have to ask three questions. One, how do we define unclear? Currently, there are no specific models to judge the extent to which certain projects are unclear, or whether we define it on the basis of the effects it pose on people, or other practical difficulties associated with it. . Stopping funding of any ongoing research projects on the grounds of eliminating as unclear will not prove wise enough. Thus, unless we develop a strategy to effectively divide scientific research into two broader categories of clear and unclear, effective and ineffective, we cannot decide which researches to grant aid and which not to.
Two, how do we foresee future consequences of an ongoing project? A project that is failing today might yield a substantial result tomorrow. That our world is lit today is a result of Edison’s failure of finding a suitable metal for the filament of the electric bulb; it was only after rejecting a thousand elements that he was able to fit tungsten. Thus, a better approach might always be taken, and who knows, by sheer serendipity, it might result in a world changing invention one day. Without a strategy to effectively assess what consequences ongoing scientific experiments can yield, it becomes unwise on the Government’s part to stop funding it. It is only after repeated failures when one succeeds in changing the way we live today.
Finally, who is responsible for taking the decisions on the Government’s part to judge whether a project is likely to yield commendable results or not? Is it the funding body, or senior scientists? It becomes highly impractical when experiments are judges on the basis of the results produced than focusing on the significance they hold for future. When Government stops funding researches, progress takes a toll. Withdrawal of funding impedes researchers from pursuing experiments, or may even intimidate them about future withdrawal of funds from their projects, thus jeopardizing careers. Possible discovery of newer horizons will reduce when more researchers give up on their studies, universities will suffer worldwide and pursuing a career in scientific discovery will gradually plummet. The only possible solution for selective funding is to undertake a study which categorizes researches undertaken over many years without significant impact to the scientific community, or maybe experiments which have proved to be misleading on the long run. Funding can be substantially reduced, and diverted to fields which hold greater impacts and more promising results.
Answering the following questions will help us decide on the allocation of funding for various researches. Instead of completely funding certain projects, the best possible solution for the Government in the long run calls for a wiser and smarter allocation of resources among all undergoing projects.
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Suggestion: recommends
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Message: Did you mean 'poses'?
Suggestion: poses
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Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...ctical difficulties associated with it. . Stopping funding of any ongoing researc...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, if, may, so, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2987.0 2235.4752809 134% => OK
No of words: 556.0 442.535393258 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37230215827 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85588840946 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0030889381 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 292.0 215.323595506 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525179856115 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 910.8 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.1112481346 60.3974514979 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.884615385 118.986275619 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3846153846 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.26923076923 5.21951772744 24% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.396510181131 0.243740707755 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121786687805 0.0831039109588 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.180446700924 0.0758088955206 238% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215108754117 0.150359130593 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.140525959975 0.0667264976115 211% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 154.0 100.480337079 153% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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