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.
“For every action, there will be a reaction.” This is a principle that was proposed by Newton and that explains the resulting effects of forces in daily objects. This can be extended to other areas of knowledge, especially scientific research areas. The prompt suggests that the government should limit the restrictions on scientific research to a minimum, to grow and flourish scientific discoveries. In my opinion, I mostly disagree with the statement and the reasons are as follows.
To begin, researchers are “lazy” in the sense that if there is an easier way to achieve certain results, he will opt for the easy route instead of the complex route. And that is reasonable, alas, it is expected. In order to progress, researcher need to surpass certain conundrums, and as they build the background to understand the problems, they are able to advance faster and give larger strides. For instance, if a pharmaceutical biochemist could test the company’s drugs directly in humans to determine the effectiveness of the drug, he would certainly do so because there is a lot of money involved in pharmaceutical segment. He wouldn’t waste his time testing the drugs in lab rats, he would just apply the chemicals into a human body and see what would happen. In other words, having restrictions in the way science is conducted is very important to guarantee ethics among researchers.
Further, when there are fewer restrictions, researchers will automatically do more trial and error tests to reach their goal instead of studying a way to achieve an elegant solution. What I mean by this is that having ethical barriers that limit what a researcher can and can’t do directly implies in the way that he conducts research. A researcher in Brazil, a chemical engineer, had spread the news that he had finally discovered a cure for cancer and that he had concocted a pill that would cure the cancer disease forever. The problem is that he was doing his research in his backyard lab, with no regulations nor governmental inspection. He was immediately expelled from the university where he worked and government officials shut down his illegal lab. In the media, he was recognized as the lonely wolf that roamed the earth alone against all odds. The problem is that no one knows what he did, what his tests where and whom did he test these drugs.
Of course, there are downsides to so many regulations upon research. It is obviously slower than it would be if there weren’t so many limitations. A great example of this is the medical advances in WW2. German physicians learned a lot from experimenting with wounded soldiers and war prisoners. Many were killed in the process, but the Germans were interested in the what they were gaining instead of what they were losing. By the end of the war, governments and humans rights decided that there must be a limit to what research can and can not do. This is a fuzzy realm of research that is still very much questioned, for today the craze is artificial networks and that someday robots will be able to think just as we do.
In conclusion, research must be circumscribed by ethics and there must be specific ethical boundaries in which researchers can not surpass. Although results will take more time to mature, we guarantee that in the future there will be no Frankensteins roaming the earth.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, if, so, still, for instance, i mean, in conclusion, of course, in my opinion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 36.0 19.5258426966 184% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 11.3162921348 203% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 55.0 33.0505617978 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2815.0 2235.4752809 126% => OK
No of words: 569.0 442.535393258 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94727592267 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.88402711743 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93857476686 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 283.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497363796134 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 853.2 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.38483146067 251% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.872040317 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.269230769 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8846153846 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.07692307692 5.21951772744 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.105975614607 0.243740707755 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0342999317019 0.0831039109588 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0399697725378 0.0758088955206 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0765325878316 0.150359130593 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0475215023191 0.0667264976115 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 141.0 100.480337079 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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