Government restrictions have severely limited the amount of stem cell research American
companies can conduct. Because of these restrictions, many American scientists who
specialize in the field of stem cell research have signed long-term contracts to work for
foreign companies. Recently, Congress has proposed lifting all restrictions on stem cell
research. Which of the following conclusions can most properly be inferred from the
information above?
A) At least some foreign companies that conduct stem cell research work under fewer
restrictions than some American companies do.
b) Because American scientists are under long-term contracts to foreign companies, there will
be a significant influx of foreign professionals into the United States.
c) In all parts of the world, stem cell research is dependent on the financial backing of local
government.
d) In the near future, American companies will no longer be at the forefront of stem cell
research.
e) If restrictions on stem cell research are lifted, many of the American scientists will break
their contracts to return to American companies.




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The answer to this one should be a D. C has nothing to do with the research.
Please give OA and OE.

the answer must not be C because it is out of scope. But E is very much tempting. how do i eliminate E here.
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+1 for A. Please provide OA.

A is correct since scientist are making contracts in other countries so there must be some countries which are not restricted to do the research.
E is not mentioned or cannot be deduced from the sentence.
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+1 for A

B, C, D are all out of scope.
E is tempting, but again not certain.

A

In this argument, a cause-and-effect relationship is presented between American scientists signing long-term contracts with foreign companies and the government's restrictions on stem cell research. This cause-and-effect relationship is the key to the correct answer.

(A) CORRECT. If American scientists signed the contracts because of U.S. restrictions, we can infer that the new companies they signed with were under fewer restrictions. Therefore, at least some foreign companies must work under fewer restrictions than some American companies do.

(B) While it is possible that once the restrictions are banned American companies will want to hire more scientists and will seek them overseas, there are too many unknowns between the premises we have have been given and this conclusion. It is doubtful that an increase in the number of immigrating stem cell research scientists would have a significant impact on the number of foreign professionals overall.

(C) This passage is about government restrictions; we are given no information about financial backing. Beware of extreme statements such as in all parts of the world.

(D) We are not given any information regarding America's current or future position in terms of stem cell research. Though restrictions and scientists switching companies are two issues related to a company's prosperity, we are given no information about how these directly affect America's position.

(E) We are not given any information that will help us predict the behavior of the scientists in the future.

This is from the Manhattan CR Guide 4th Edition.
Official Answer is A, explanations are the same posted above by santivilla.

A though doesn't make sense to me.

At least some foreign companies that conduct stem cell research work under fewer
restrictions than SOME American companies do.

Why some? The government put a restricition, therefore ALL American companies should be affected by the same exact restrictive measure not just some of them. Otherwise scientists would go to those American companies without said restrictions and not all the way to Europe.

My answer would be D but it's deeply flawed too. Definitely an horrible question.

+1 A

If the foreign companies have the same number of restrictions, or less, the scientis wouldn't want to work in those companies. Those companies wouldn't have something attractive for the scientists.
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The answer is clearly A. It still leaves some probability by using 'some'.

c is wrong as it uses 'all countries', which is a very strong statement.
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