Governments should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development.
The nature of scientific research can be concluded as enigmatic and unpredictable. if a government wants science to prosper, it has to let loose its control to make all possibilities happen. By tightening its control, it can severely hamper the overall progress of science without realizing it. Although some people still argue that government restrictions are necessary, uncovering the evidence from history would prove them wrong.
The people who support government restrictions ignore the fact that government is not all mighty. Officials on the top may not know much better than the ordinaries, not to mention the science and technology in a specific field. When Frank Whittle, an officer first proposed his plan of a turbo engine to the British Air Force, he was told that his idea was infeasible. he then had to raise funds and conduct the test on his own. After realizing its initial success, the officer then stepped in to sponsor the program. This is a clear proof that the departments on top may not be aware of the next coming breakthrough, and should therefore put no restrictions on those who want to give their ideas a chance.
History provides many examples on how science would prosper if there were no government restrictions. For a long time, due to the strict control of the catholic church, people were told to believe that the sun orbits around the earth. only the scientific research supporting the catholic principles were allowed, and the others that serve the opposite purpose were under close restrictions. A scientist born in Poland named Copernicus, however, through his observations had realized that it should be the earth that orbits around the sun, not the vice versa. Even though it could have been a major discovery, the restrictions forbade him to publish his ideas until his death. His theory was then supported by discoveries made by other scientists like Galileo under immense pressure from the church. if there was not a strict control of the church over science, the people’s knowledge of astronomy would have undoubtedly developed more rapidly.
Besides the discovery of Copernicus, the discovery of gun powder is another example of triumph of science over government restriction. In ancient china, the practice of alchemy had prevailed, but then restricted. The government viewed alchemy as sheer nonsense and did not believe if it would generate any favorable results. some, however, persisted with their practice and conducted them secretly. One time during an experiment, the “lab” exploded, which soon arose people’s awareness. The alchemy test was undoubtedly a failure, but the unforeseen result was just what the government would have dreamed of: a more devastating weapon. Had everyone obeyed the government restriction, gun powder, which made so much societal changes would come into existence much later.
In conclusion, it is clear that governments should not put restrictions on science research. The discoveries of Copernicus and alchemists from ancient china have proven that government regulations would only slow the evolution of science and societal progression.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, however, if, may, so, still, then, therefore, as to, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 12.9106741573 194% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2666.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 499.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34268537074 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72634191566 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92472182867 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 215.323595506 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545090180361 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 806.4 704.065955056 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 13.0 4.99550561798 260% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.7826382586 60.3974514979 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 102.538461538 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1923076923 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.34615384615 5.21951772744 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163350207256 0.243740707755 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0491027618619 0.0831039109588 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0686732235752 0.0758088955206 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107717137146 0.150359130593 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0459113198796 0.0667264976115 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.1639044944 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 100.480337079 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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