Please help me on this question

Question

Your book describes several great reasons why it is important to study chemistry. If you had the authority to designate federal money to be spent on a specific type Of scientific research, what would you chose and why?

Answer 1

I have some questions that will hopefully jump-start your thinking:

Is there something that is part of your everyday life that you find destructive? (For example, fossil fuels, single use plastics, or phone screens that shatter when dropped from a height of 2 inches) Odds are, there is some lab somewhere working on a solution.

Is there something you don’t understand or could be better explained? (For example, why some people can’t tolerate dairy and some can) Research is all about finding answers to questions and finding more questions when we think we have all of the answers.

Finally, is there something you’ve always wanted to know about? Will other people wonder about it too? Maybe research hasn’t started yet, but it should.

I don’t think there is one right answer to this question. So talk about something that interests you and affects other people’s lives.

Answer 2

Taylor

Well what do you think is important ?

You could fund research on effective military weapons that can efficiently kill many people.

You could fund research for a vaccine for COVID, or a cure for breast cancer which kills many women in the US annually.

Should the research benefit people or hurt people ?

If it's federal money, if you pay tax indirectly you are funding the research.

For me, I don't want to fund research into more effective nuclear weapons say (but I don't have a choice).

So there is no one answer to this question !

Mike