Observatory director: Some say that funding the megatelescope will benefit only the astronomers who will work with it. This dangerous point of view, applied to the work of Maxwell, Newton, or Einstein, would have stifled their research and deprived the world of beneficial applications, such as the development of radio, that followed from that research.
If the statements above are put forward as an argument in favor of development of the megatelescope, which one of the following is the strongest criticism of that argument?
(A) It appeals to the authority of experts
who cannot have known all the issues involved in construction of the megatelescope.
(B) It
does not identify those opposed to development of the megatelescope.
(C) It
launches a personal attack on opponents of the megatelescope by accusing them of having a dangerous point of view.
(D) It does not
distinguish between the economic and the intellectual sense of “benefit.”
(E) It does not show that the proposed megatelescope research is worthy of comparison with that of eminent scientists in its potential for applications.
The argument is similar to one where a politician appeals to general public by comparing him/her work to that of some old legendary/revolutionary forefathers of a nation in order to justify his/her argument.
On that note ONLY E makes it to the cut.
Answer E.
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