一个CR的问题,feifei_logical里面的73题:
73. There is no reason why the work of scientists has to be officially confirmed before being published. There is a system in place for the confirmation or disconfirmation of scientific findings, namely, the replication of results by other scientists. Poor scientific work on the part of any one scientists, which can include anything from careless reporting practices to fraud, is not harmful. It will be exposed and rendered harmless when other scientists conduct experiments and obtain disconfirmatory results. Which one of the following, if true, would weaken the argument? A. Scientific experiments can go unchallenged for many years before they are replicated. B. Most scientists work in universities, where their work is submitted to peer review before publication. C. Most scientists are under pressure to make their work accessible to the scrutiny of replication. D. In scientific experiments, careless reporting is more common than fraud. E. Most scientists work as part of a team rather than alone.
我的理解是:作者强调不需要一个新的confirmation机制;那么能够weaken这个结论的应该是:某些地方就存在了这样的机制。这是我的理解,这样理解的话,我觉得在选项B中描述的大学老师经常需要相互校验的机制,应该就是weaken了作者的结论,为什么答案中说是无关选项呢?
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