Question

What is your opinion about:

1 Releasing the results of a research to the public is considered a good practice. Different views (or criticism) may bring valuable insight to the researchers and perhaps help them to reevaluate their findings.

2 When it comes to publishing research results to the general public, science as a whole should be inclusive in nature. Granted many research projects are funded through public means, the scientist who conduct the research often directly serve the public interest.

200 words each question no plagiarism please

Answer 1

Ques 1. As a researcher, its highly beneficial to disseminate your work and knowledge through peer-reviewed journals of high credibility as it often leads to unexpected and useful new connections who can give you the required suggestions for future improvements. Also, its possible that if your work is authentic and noteworthy then it may earn you reverence in the scientific community. Improved communication aids improved organization of thoughts and work procedure. It encourages one to work on his/her technical and associated non-technical skills and helps to improve communication and presentation competence. Besides, publicizing information also holds one accountable for the reliability and credibility of his/her work. As a result, the researcher gets motivated to improve on these scales and so the data released has fewer chances of discrepancies and fraudulence. One direct benefit of public dissemination of a research is that if general public finds the work suitable and useful for them, then the research may achieve augmented support and indeed greater investment of public funds. But releasing scientific information should be done meticulously as the scientific data can be highly confidential. So, the viewership should be critically managed. It should be taken care that the journals being considered for publication are reliable and have the required veneration because a journal's value index is directly associated with the published information's reliability.

Ques 2. Undeniably, any scientist undertaking any research is answerable to both the public and the government because these are the groups that hugely support and fund his research. So, the respective authorities hold a pristine right to question a research and owe the answers. Therefore, scientists do not have a monopoly on knowledge and its fruits. If they make an innovation, it is their duty to share it with the world. Another fact to be considered is that where academic journals are profound to publicize the newly attained knowledge, much to the public dismay, most of the journals are inaccessible to the general public. Also, it should be considered that it is the public, as tax-payers, that fund research and so the expected outcomes should be discussed with them on a general public platform and apparently the accessibility to such scientific data should be improved. On the other hand, many scientific innovations are published in open journals these days so that people can read them free of cost or by paying minimal costs. But it is a matter of fact that research and review articles use sophisticated jargon not known to all but they also cannot be replaced by an elementary language. So, one has to have a knowledge of such a specific high level language in order to fully reap the benefits of its understanding.