In today's world, private companies rather than the government pay for and conduct most scientific research. Do you think the advantages outweigh disadvantages?

It is not uncommon for scientific 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 to be carried out by private 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬

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of the government in

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age of rapid technological advancement.

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idea has several demerits, I would argue its potential for unlimited innovation and lower red tape can effectively nullify the disadvantages. On the one hand, some possible downsides of the aforementioned practice, namely a lack of solid funding and ethical concerns, could be 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝.

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there are a few

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businesses that have made their name on the

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stage for the conduct of ambitious research in the name of science

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as SpaceX, statistical evidence does not equate research done privately with unfailing success. In fact, it is

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a shortage of concrete financial investment that led to numerous immature deaths of what could potentially be scientific discoveries.

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, the nature of the privatization of businesses is 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐨𝐮𝐬 to the fact that those companies are primarily for profit in order to sustain themselves. Without government 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩, a number of prospectively profitable scientific projects with, say, a complete disregard for

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peace, could easily be launched.

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, the controversial invention of dynamite, which made Alfred Nobel one of the wealthiest people of his time, is sometimes taken as a product of anti-peace 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 and has supposedly resulted in, whether directly or indirectly, an 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 loss of lives during wartime the

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over.

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, I am convinced that unlimited innovation and reduced 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 from the privatization of scientific investigations are just as significant. To start with,

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it is fair to assume that censorship from government agencies helps rid

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society of future implications, it should be pointed out that in historical terms, it was those scientific studies with a high or even extreme level of 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 that would most likely become major 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 for human living conditions. To illustrate, Ignaz Semmelweis’s idea of sanitizing hands after surgeries, an entirely sane act of 𝐡𝐲𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐞 in the modern

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, was met with 𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 opposition from his medical colleagues.

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serves to prove that his groundbreaking idea was rejected even by the people who worked alongside him, let alone by the authorities whose job is to judge whether what one does is 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥.

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, less bureaucracy means, efficiency-wise, considerably fewer strains on privately owned firms;

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,

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empowers them to allocate even more time and capital for the development of scientific ideas that may benefit their customers. In short, as discussed above,

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the privatization of scientific studies is neither more

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less advantageous than

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is undesirable;

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research is needed for a finite conclusion to be arrived at.