Claim: Any piece of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted, since it may well be proven false in the future.
Reason: Much of the information that people assume is factual actually turns out to be inaccurate.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
Ever since the ancient times, mysteries of the Earth or even beyond that, the mysteries of the universe"s" have been one of the main focuses of the humankind. The primal urge to lift the veneer of what can be seen resulted in our interest in positive sciences. Throughout the history, many scientists claimed many ideas and while most of them was supported by experiments, there are many assertations made based on clear assumptions. No matter what type of a scientific information it is; today, there are many scientific claims that are still accepted as true, as there are many ideas falsified later on. Thanks to the cumulative nature of science, we as humankind need these falsified ideas as much as we need the "still respected" ones. Because in order to come up with a scientific discovery, a scientist needs a starting point. If you are not as lucky as Isaac Newton who discovered the gravity just through the inspiration of a falling apple, you will need ideas -right or wrong- to inspect, research and surpass, as the nature of science commands. That is why I believe that mistrusting any information with the fear of its being falsified later on would hinder the prospected discoveries on it.
For instance, the geocentric model of Earth was not asserted out of a whim. The people at the time observed the stars and other planets, moreover, the Sun was rising from one point and setting from just the opposite of that particular point. All these lead to the people of 15th century to think that they were living in the center of the universe. This used to be the case, of course, until Copernicus claimed that it was the other way around, that the universe was heliocentric and it was the Earth revolving around the Sun. Today, many scientists assert that Copernicus started his research about it by questioning the general claim of the geocentric model. Thus, this shows us that in order to find out new and more factual discoveries, we need a starting point to enhance, whether right or wrong!
Moreover, many people are unaware of the fact that even Einstein had incoherent ideas too. For instance, Einstein thought that the universe was expanding and there was a firm mass ensuring that it is not going to collapse, however, this was not consistent with his other idea of relativity. Such an incoherency led not only Einstein but also many other scientists to make more research on this topic. Furthermore, in the end Einstein not only saw that the idea of a firm mass was wrong, but also enhanced his idea of relativity. What I mean is, the ideas to be falsified later on can also cause the developments on previous ideas that are actually right.
However, the claim of the author is also right that such incorrect theories also cause discontinuence in science. For instance, Isaac Newton claimed that light was dispersing in the form of particules. Until Einstein falsified this theory, it was thought to be right and because of that, scientists could not proceed many of its experiments on light. Thus, a counter-argument might also hold true that at some point, the ideas should not be trusted "that much".
Before conclusion, I would like to draw attention to difference between mistrust -which is in the prompt- and distrust. Someone distrusts a claim due to experiment but mistrust is generally out of a whim and a feeling. I believe that, moving forward from the examples I stated above, what we should be doing is not mistrusting, but rather keeping on questioning any reality and "distrusting" when they are falsified. In order for the humanity to keep going, we need not to accept any fact as right (even though it was Newton's idea!) and keep questioning it. However, mistrusting any information, as the author recommended, seems like a narrow minded and noxious approach to science.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 460, Rule ID: KIND_OF_A[1]
Message: Don't include 'a' after a classification term. Use simply 'type of'.
Suggestion: type of
...ed on clear assumptions. No matter what type of a scientific information it is; today, th...
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Line 9, column 481, Rule ID: NEEDNT_TO_DO_AND_DONT_NEED_DO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'accept'?
Suggestion: accept
...the humanity to keep going, we need not to accept any fact as right even though it was Ne...
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Line 9, column 542, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: And
... right even though it was Newtons idea! and keep questioning it. However, mistrusti...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, furthermore, however, if, moreover, so, still, thus, while, as to, for instance, i mean, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 38.0 19.5258426966 195% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 59.0 33.0505617978 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 92.0 58.6224719101 157% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3206.0 2235.4752809 143% => OK
No of words: 653.0 442.535393258 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90964777948 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.05508305356 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90492160693 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 304.0 215.323595506 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465543644717 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 979.2 704.065955056 139% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.9193726947 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.740740741 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1851851852 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.40740740741 5.21951772744 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => 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: 0.13958025626 0.243740707755 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0396895685858 0.0831039109588 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0329145203739 0.0758088955206 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0831894370484 0.150359130593 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0231895451104 0.0667264976115 35% => 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: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 135.0 100.480337079 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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