Public health will improve more quickly in the wake of new medical dis

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.


Which one of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

Question Type: Weaken
Conclusion: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.
Premise: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.

Pre thinking:
To weaken the conclusion we must try to prove that:
1) There is some problem with 'informing the press ' directly without peer review or
2) There is some advantage/benefit with peer review and then 'informing the press '.

(A) Peer review often prevents the publication of false conclusions drawn on the basis of poorly conducted medical research. This option tells us the advantage/benefit with peer review and then 'informing the press '.

(B) People often alter their life-styles on the basis of new medical information made available through the press. Irrelevant

(C) Some improvements in public health are due to factors other than the discovery of new medical information. Irrelevant

(D) Some newspapers would be willing to publish the results of medical research before those results have appeared in peer-reviewed journals. Irrelevant

(E) Most peer-reviewed scientific journals would refuse to give up the practice of peer review Irrelevant

A is our answer.