PT9.S2.Q25 - Medical research findings are customarily

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• drbrown2 Alum Member

  May 2019 2227 karma

  @Halloalles
  First 2 sentences are context. Premise is Prevent Harm ----> Peer Review. Conclusion talks about the medical journal publishing peer reviewed research findings to protect the public. So we need an answer choice that bridges between the premise that peer review is necessary and that medical journals must publish the findings. AC A is necessary because if we negate it we don't need medical journals to publish findings.

  I think you tried to link up the context and had to fudge the conditional statements a bit to work it all out. Try looking at the argument again with the first 2 sentences as context and the second 2 sentences as the premise and conclusion and I think it is a bit easier to see the gap in reasoning and the bridge that A provides. Hope this helps
• BlindReviewer Alum Member

  May 2019 855 karma

  I agree with @drbrown2 (especially on how the first two sentences aren't really that important compared to the last two) -- I think what's more important than simply translating is just understanding the general argument, and then translating the relevant parts.

  The main thing that makes this question difficult is the conclusion, which is almost a conditional statement that hinges on "must"

  Protecting the public from substandard info -> Waiting until peer review happens in medical journals

  This is because the last sentence says "this is the price that MUST be paid" meaning, waiting for journals to peer review is a necessary condition.

  The premise to support this claim is in the preceding sentence that uses "the only" to indicate a conditional statement, which you translated correctly:

  Prevent erroneous information -> Prepublication peer review

  If we look at these two statements together, we can say that protecting the public from substandard info and preventing erroneous information are basically the same thing, so what needs to happen is that either the two necessary conditions are the same, or one is required for the other. A does the latter, where A shows:

  Prepublication peer review -> peer review in medical journals
• Halloalles Alum Member

  May 2019 46 karma

  Thank you all!!