About what percentage of scientific research and its answers actually benefit humanity?

About what percentage of scientific research and its answers actually benefit humanity?

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Thats undefined since things that are a benefit to us now will be worthless in the future and vice versa, so neasuring their value when research takes year is pointless.

Not OP but let's say he was intending to mean this: what percentage of answers of scientific research benefit humanity such as research of health, medicine(basically health), how we can save Earth from annihilation, progress other species of Earth towards improving the livleyhood of the creatures domains themselves. Meaning not intruding on their domain. Can you answer us this?

something like 1%, however that 1% often proves to be very useful, improving efficiency in an industry by orders of magnitude and such

-1/12%

I think more than you would think because of the huge chain of innovations associated with each larger innovation.

A lot of research seems pointless until someone finds an application, and sometimes that can be an application of an application of an application of a theory.

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All of them. The noblest purpose of humanity is to acquire more data

100%. All is useful.

If you don't crop out that horrible watermark, im going to beat my dog to death and a laundry iron.

>Can you answer us this?
Sorry, even with your detailed version of the question, "benefit humanity" is still entirely subjective.
Personal longevity doesn't benefit the species as a whole, for instance.

this doesn't directly answer your questions but you will find it interesting
"Why Most Published Research Findings Are False"
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

But you can't beat a laundry iron to death.
Except maybe if you're using diamond, the hardest metal known to womyn.

All of it, stop justifying ignorance.

What benefits technology doesnt necessarily equate to benefitting humanity. Learn to walk again without crutches.

100%

What percentage of scientific research is being performed by scrupulous people?

That is useful on a day to day basis - 2-5%
That is useful to understanding stuff - 80%, probably less

>emdrive
>MOND
>sociology studies with no control group

100%
You wouldn't have applied research without basic research.

Scientific research provides 100% insight into what a load of shit humans are.

0%. None. The universe ends eventually.

pretty much all do.

We've got a couple billion years to figure out how to beat entropy.

Honestly ALL of it does. We just don't know how yet. Say you discover how to synthesize x. It might be generations later a scientist is trying to help people with disease Q and they realize they have trouble synthesizing x in their bodies.

That one is straight forward but honestly any kind of even pure math or philosophy often becomes central to applied technology 100+ years later.

We can't know which pieces of the universe we research will be MOST important in the future but most of what were doing now will be very useful when we have low cost, energy and stable AI. It will be able to use ALL of the research we have done thus far to build us a better world... then eventually to exterminate us all as humans are the root problem.

100% because all scientific research employs humans, which is, by definition, beneficial to society