23 Governments should place few if any restrictions on scientific research and development

The point of contention that shall authorities minimize the restraints from scientific progress is quite debatable. It is completely justified to not limit scientific research and development in favor of accelerated growth in various sectors, development of new tech and practices, gain competitive edge over other nation states, become more self-reliant, and boost economic activity. Unquestionably the fear that grasps our mind with unrestricted scientific progress is what if we challenge the nature in process and screw-up bad. What must be understand is that science understands this much better than us and uses containment zones and thorough testing to prevent the same.

Undoubtedly, removing much of the restrains over scientific progress would equate to meteoric scientific development in all domains. New technology and practices will be developed to solve existing issues faster and may be even move issues from solving when arise to never happen. Covid-19 vaccines are the most eminent examples of how less restrains on scientific research and development can lead to accelerated development of much needed solutions of immediate issues for us potentially saving lives in millions.

21st century wars are fought not in the battlefield but by maintaining deterrence against potential wars with advanced weaponry. Nations become self-reliant with the development of technology and can potentially survive trade sanctions against them and become more independent. Fracking has made America more independent in power sector and the US government can now take a more aggressive stance in best of their interests minimizing the ability of other nation states to influence US policies. Drones are the most disruptive technology that have changed our battlefields virtually removing the human quotient from the war and giving strike anywhere around the world with the push of a button. Such developments would have been a distant dream had we taken a conservative stance towards developments leading to these technologies.

The economic boost generated from developments in technology and newer methods is not ignorable . Each time a newer method is developed for existing problems jobs are created with the expansion of the domain and more cost affordable solutions can be provided to the consumer. Be it the industrial revolution in 1800s with factories to the IT revolution since 1990s with computers and programming constructs, each time have made up the most significant part of our economies and have opened numerous job opportunities. Hence, we can say that scientific advancements not only shape our lives but are also actively shaping our future economies.

The dangers of unrestricted scientific progress challenging nature itself are not unheard of, what we fail to grasp is that any such breakthrough advancements that can potentially harm the nature for the worse are often carried out in containment zones with thorough testing before introduction to the general population for consumer usage. GM is a FMCG giant and specializes in developing new and better varieties of crops, fertilizers, and pesticides, before any new product is made available in the market is developed in isolated places and careful and thorough testing is done for many years before they can be made available.

Convincingly we can say that hindering science is not in best of our interests. Meteoric developments of technology will continue to be there either sooner or later irrespective of our acceptance of them. Self-reliance for nation states is achieved only with scientific progress of that nation not with limiting breakthroughs and become dominion of others. New technology has and will continue to be the leading contributor of our economies irrespective of the timelines. Our worst fears regarding scientific progress can be easily confronted with developing better isolation techniques and procedures, and extensive trials before introduction.

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Average: 8.3 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, regarding, so

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 29.0 14.8657303371 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 84.0 58.6224719101 143% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3361.0 2235.4752809 150% => OK
No of words: 605.0 442.535393258 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.55537190083 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.95951083803 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10791616594 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 305.0 215.323595506 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504132231405 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 1052.1 704.065955056 149% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.6177651777 60.3974514979 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.130434783 118.986275619 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3043478261 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.73913043478 5.21951772744 33% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.161813251501 0.243740707755 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0490843891602 0.0831039109588 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.043489096232 0.0758088955206 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.091875519751 0.150359130593 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0374031735117 0.0667264976115 56% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.9 14.1392134831 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.8420337079 75% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.26 12.1639044944 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.26 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 166.0 100.480337079 165% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.7820224719 136% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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