No. of research articles are published internationally. Are the published research applicable to the mankind or useful for the living beings on the earth? Or people are spending money, time, energy, toxic materials on producing garbage on the earth?
By doing research we are constructing intelactual property interms of articles and the knowledge in these articles may be useful for improvement of mankind or human lifestyle.
You are right. It may be useful but how much and how will be if people will not get that publication or the research which are published do not have applicability.
When discussing research methodology, it is important to distinguish between the so-called applied and basic research. According to Jamie Hale, applied research examines a specific set of circumstances, and its ultimate goal is relating the results to a particular situation. That is, applied research uses the data directly for real world application. In applied research “the goal is to predict a specific behavior in a very specific setting,” says Keith Stanovich, cognitive scientist and author of How To Think Straight About Psychology (2007, p.106).
Basic research focuses on fundamental principles and testing theories. Mistakenly, it is sometimes implied that basic research doesn’t have practical applications. The history of science is replete with examples of basic research leading to real world applications. Just because a research study is not directed at specific set of circumstances does not mean that in the future the finding from that study will not be applied to a specific event or events.
For the above-mentioned reasons, both applied and basic research are important to the scientific process. It is a mistake to pit them against each other. According to Keith Stanovich: It is probably a mistake to view the basic-versus-applied distinction solely in terms of whether a study has practical applications, because this difference often simply boils down to a matter of time. Applied findings are of use immediately. However, there is nothing so practical as a general and accurate theory.
Emphatically yes.....But, not at the cost of basic research.
The idea has been beautifully explained by Dr Jorge Morales Pedraza.
Precisely speaking, basic research makes the foundation which is carried forward through applied research only. But applied research cannot move forward in isolation ......It is to be consistently backed by basic research.
yes, it is most as researcher are independent but if same research will be conducted by professional they may be biased