Governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing

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Governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

The modern world has seen the most astonishing breakthroughs and has advanced to an unbelievably high level of technology, only by the support of scientific research that was once considered useless by people not actively involved in it. The results of scientific research may turn out to be useful at a later time, but they will still be significant. So, government should fund scientific research even if its consequences are unclear.

First of all, scientific research does not always produce results that can be used immediately. Sometimes, it takes decades for the use of those results to reveal themselves. On many occasions, especially in scientific conferences or radio shows, the great astrophysicist, Neil Degrasse Tyson has explained that if the government investing in scientific researches, the human race will would have to face a whole lot of adversities in the future. The main reason being, without scientific breakthroughs, human being will never be able to grow. Albert Einstein, the world's favourite genius, wrote several papers that were considered by many people as useless because they did not have impact on the society that the people could benefit from. But, roughly about 50 years after these papers, the L.A.S.E.R was invented based on the same principle Einstein devised. Human beings are generally not good at making a prediction about what the future might hold. So, cutting funding for science is not a practical step to take.

Second of all, if government funding were to stop, the eager young minds who have a strong desire to make contribution to scientific world, would be discouraged beforehand. Our society still has an ample variety as well as quantity of problems that we are yet to find the solutions to. Benefits provided by scientific advancements drive almost everything around us, from television screens to airplanes; the ubiquity of science is evidence that we cannot develop as humans without it. The late Richard Feynman once said," Science sometimes produces practical results but that's not why we do it". Even failures in research will provide us with an astute sense of judgment about the possibilities we should consider and the ones we should not.

Third, there have been many possible scenarios where research produced some undesirable results, like generation of a new virus, or weapons of mass destruction, but they have only urged us to double our efforts in making technology that overpowers these negative impacts. Far more medicines and remedial substances have been created than viruses. Diseases that were considered incurable a few decades ago, Cancer, for example, can now be treated very easily.

Therefore, it can be concluded that the unpredictability of the results produced by science makes us incapable of judging its impacts on the future. We can summarise that the benefits of research in science far outweigh its liabilities and cannot be overlooked. Rescinding the funding will only make matters worse than before.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, look, may, second, so, still, therefore, third, well, for example, as well as, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2532.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 480.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.275 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68069463864 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86936646124 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 276.0 215.323595506 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575 0.4932671777 117% => OK
syllable_count: 792.9 704.065955056 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.753124189 60.3974514979 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.090909091 118.986275619 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8181818182 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.86363636364 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
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: 0.117032137544 0.243740707755 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0406230403533 0.0831039109588 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0516075074871 0.0758088955206 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0678787623336 0.150359130593 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0413159424745 0.0667264976115 62% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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