LSAT-22-2-12

Questions 12-13

Public health will improve more quickly in the wake of new medical discoveries if medical researchers abandon their practice of waiting until their findings are published in peer-reviewed journals before informing the press of important research results. That is because the public release of new medical information allows people to use that information in order to improve their health, but the peer-review process is unavoidably very slow.

12.   Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

(A) Many medical researchers do not agree to serve as reviewers when their own research is in a critical phase.

(B) Reviewers for many medical journals are not themselves medical researchers.

(C) People would use new medical information even if it were not first published in peer-reviewed journals.

(D) The peer-review process could be speeded up enough to produce a significant improvement in public health.（C）

(E) New medical information that is first published in peer-reviewed journals does not usually receive public attention.

答案是C我选了E   后来想想public attention不等于use the imformation  请问大家意见?

还有C中if it were not first published in peer-reviewed journals有必要吗 感觉跟原文没多大关系?

Here, "if it were not first published in peer-reviewed journals" in fact is cooresponding to "abandon their practice of waiting until their findings are published in peer-reviewed journals before informing the press of important research results", which is the suggestion by the auguer to improve public health.

But whether this method is effective or not depends on an assumption that people would accept this kind of info even if researchers change the ways of publishing their new results, tha's to say this method suggested is really feasible and effective. Without this assumption, the conclusion can hardly achieved.

For E, in my opinion, it just explains why "the peer-review process is unavoidably very slow", which has nothing to do the suggestion. So, it can not serve as an assumption, while probably just strenthen the argument.

I don't know whether my explanation is proper. Could NNs give any comments?

got it!!!

I think your explanation is really good !!