8.14 一道reasoning！！HELP！！THANKS

lihaolan

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
谁能帮我解释下。KEY is C .我弄不清楚第一句话的意思。。有两个状语从句。怎么解释！！拜托啦

lihaolan

C选项even if 后面这个和原文由什么关系。。。不懂。。

玛莎丁丁

The main idea is : Peer-review process is time-wasting and should be abandoned.
Wait, what if people don't trust the new medical discoveries if they're not first published in peer-review journals? Then the aim to improve public health won't be realized.
So C is the Assumption we need.