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15 May 2023, 01:30
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According to a recent study, advertisements in medical journals often contain misleading information about the effectiveness and safety of new prescription drugs. The medical researchers who wrote the study concluded that the advertisements could result in doctors’ prescribing inappropriate drugs to their patients.
The researchers’ conclusion would be most strengthened if which of the following were true?
(A) Advertisements for new prescription drugs are an important source of revenue for medical journals.
(B) Editors of medical journals are often unable to evaluate the claims made in advertisements for new prescription drugs.
(C) Doctors rely on the advertisements as a source of information about new prescription drugs.
(D) Advertisements for new prescription drugs are typically less accurate than medical journal articles evaluating those same drugs.
(E) The Food and Drug Administration, the government agency responsible for drug regulation, reviews advertisements for new drugs only after the ads have already been printed.
The researchers’ conclusion would be most strengthened if which of the following were true?
(A) Advertisements for new prescription drugs are an important source of revenue for medical journals.
(B) Editors of medical journals are often unable to evaluate the claims made in advertisements for new prescription drugs.
(C) Doctors rely on the advertisements as a source of information about new prescription drugs.
(D) Advertisements for new prescription drugs are typically less accurate than medical journal articles evaluating those same drugs.
(E) The Food and Drug Administration, the government agency responsible for drug regulation, reviews advertisements for new drugs only after the ads have already been printed.
15 May 2023, 07:11
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I think it's C.
(A) Revenue is irrelevant
(B) Editors of these journals are often unable to evaluate the advertisements. However, this answer choice doesn't say whether doctors are able to do this or not. If they are, the argument will be weakened. Therefore (B) is incorrect.
(C) Correct. If doctors don't rely on advertisements as a source of information about new prescription drugs, they won't prescribe inappropriate drugs by seeing the advertisements. This will weaken the argument. However, this answer choice eliminates this case, thus strengthening the argument.
(D) Doesn't say anything about doctors
(E) What if the doctors only see the advertisements when they have already been reviewed by the Administration? If this is the case, the drugs that get advertised to the doctors are those that pass the review. This weakens the argument.
(A) Revenue is irrelevant
(B) Editors of these journals are often unable to evaluate the advertisements. However, this answer choice doesn't say whether doctors are able to do this or not. If they are, the argument will be weakened. Therefore (B) is incorrect.
(C) Correct. If doctors don't rely on advertisements as a source of information about new prescription drugs, they won't prescribe inappropriate drugs by seeing the advertisements. This will weaken the argument. However, this answer choice eliminates this case, thus strengthening the argument.
(D) Doesn't say anything about doctors
(E) What if the doctors only see the advertisements when they have already been reviewed by the Administration? If this is the case, the drugs that get advertised to the doctors are those that pass the review. This weakens the argument.
20 May 2023, 12:14
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I eliminated C because I thought it is neither strengthening nor weakening the argument and it might be an assumption but not something that strengthens it. GMATNinja please help! :)
