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Toxicologist: Support Recent research has shown that dioxin causes cancer in rats. ████████ ███████ ████████ ███ █████ ████ ████ ██ ███████ ███ ████████ █████ ████ ███ ███ ███ ██ ██████ ██████ ██ ██████████ ███████
Summarize Argument
The toxicologist concludes that the use of dioxin should be completely banned. The support for this recommendation is that research has shown that dioxin causes cancer in rats.
Identify Argument Part
The claim in the question stem is used to support the toxicologist’s recommendation that dioxin be completely banned.
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That dioxin causes cancer in ████ ███████ ██ ███ ████████ ██ █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ █████
a
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The hazard that the researcher is concerned with preventing is cancer in humans, not cancer in rats.
b
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The claim in the question stem is used as support for the recommendation in the conclusion, not as a benefit of not acting on the recommendation in the conclusion.
c
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The argument does not provide evidence for the claim that similar research will never be done on humans.
d
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The research mentioned in the question stem is used to support the recommendation in the conclusion to ban dioxin.
e
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The argument does not provide evidence for the claim that similar research has never been done on humans.