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

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It is now a common phenomenon that private organizations
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are pursuing scientific research in various areas of interest.
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some welcome
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citing increased efficiency and economical approaches, others contend that
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sensitive and potentially dangerous technology should not be in control of one single individual organization.
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with, these individual organizations - unlike public ones- are often motivated by profit-making and
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a scientific breakthrough made by them will be followed by exploiting it for their
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goals.
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will in turn make any new products highly expensive and almost inaccessible
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the common population.
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, if any pharmaceutical company produces medicine for cancer, it will charge a hefty price for
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life-saving drug and many won't be able to afford it.
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, it is no surprise that many people suffer without
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medicines.
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, there is
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a possibility of weaponization of
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technology by
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individual firms. Having invested a lot of time and resources in developing these machines, they are highly likely to sell them to the highest bidder.
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can prove to be disastrous for national security
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global peace and security. Or worse it can fall into the hands of any terrorist organizations.
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, private firms can be highly unreliable and potentially unsafe places.
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, there are some benefits that the privatization of science brings. One of the major benefits is the ack of red-tapism. Unnecessary and time-consuming processes are seldom found in privately owned corporations. They optimize every functional area and deliver results swiftly.
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, Privately owned labs can produce vaccines twice as
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as their government-owned counterparts.
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, the former achieves the target by using fewer resources than the latter.
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, there are logical arguments to both sides of the discussion.
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, I believe that the demerits of technology being misused are too disastrous to be ignored and
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far outweigh the benefits. If these inventions are misused, it will result in another global war.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • groundbreaking technologies
  • efficiently allocate resources
  • innovative projects
  • strict timelines
  • profit motives
  • basic research
  • commercial application
  • corporate funding
  • biases in research
  • unbiased exploration
  • balanced exploration
  • public sector
  • private sector
  • synergy
  • comprehensive outcomes
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