Governments should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
In these days, importance of science and technology is indisputable. However, there exist debates on effectiveness of government regulations on scientific research. The author claims that there should be only few regulations on scientific study, and I largely agree with the author’s assertion. This essay will show that why this is plausible with below reasons and examples.
Firstly, government’s regulation might be harmful for scientific development, because it can impede scientists’ free thinking and ingenuity, which is the most important ability for scientific breakthrough. For example, Sir Isaac Newton’s gravitation theory came out of his own ingenuity, not from government interference. Similarly, Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity also developed through his own scientific creativity. Hypothetically speaking, if governments of their ages forced regulations and restrictions to Newton and Einstein, they cannot concentrate on scientific studies, and thus cannot create paradigm-shifting theories. For these reasons, the governments’ regulations on scientific studies would hinder the progress of science and technology.
Admittedly, some people would agree that for ethical and safe development of science, government’s regulations is necessary. If government give limitless free to scientists, there might be scientific studies that harms society and citizens. For example, in studying nuclear fission, nuclear materials are extremely dangerous for both scientists and society. Therefore government should regulate the use of nuclear atoms, to prevent potential disaster such as Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Similarly, in biological studies such as cloning technology, they should be monitored by government, and thus be guaranteed as ethical scientific research. For these reasons, some people agree that there should be some scientific regulations be government for right, ethical, and safe development.
However, the point made in preceding paragraph can be contradicted as that even if proper regulations should guide scientist to make benign progress, it is not guaranteed that governments can institute appropriate regulations. For example, in nuclear fusion researches, governments cannot make appropriate guidelines for scientists, because regulators and politicians in governments are not expert of the nuclear technology, so that they cannot provide proper restriction. Same problem can occur in bioethics. For instance, only by scientific researches of human mind and consciousness, the humanity of embryos can be determined, not by philosophical and hypothetical debates. For these reasons, even if some people agree with the benefit of appropriate regulations, it is not guaranteed that governments could make proper restrictions on scientific, specialized research.
In conclusion, I largely agree with the author’s claim, because government regulation might hinder and harm scientific researcher’s ingenuity and latitude of thinking, and thus scientific development. Even if some regulations can guide scientific studies to ethical and safe ways, it is not warranted that governments could make appropriate regulations for scientists.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, similarly, so, therefore, thus, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 58.6224719101 72% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2777.0 2235.4752809 124% => OK
No of words: 445.0 442.535393258 101% => OK
Chars per words: 6.2404494382 5.05705443957 123% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59293186426 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.5322411704 2.79657885939 126% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.47191011236 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 836.1 704.065955056 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.59117977528 119% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.4460607057 60.3974514979 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.227272727 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2272727273 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.27272727273 5.21951772744 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.193759863719 0.243740707755 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0706052853088 0.0831039109588 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0508839407992 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132458170848 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0212026605235 0.0667264976115 32% => 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: 18.1 14.1392134831 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 25.8 48.8420337079 53% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 18.91 12.1639044944 155% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.31 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 19.0 11.7820224719 161% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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