Critical Reasoning

With the increased importance of the country's top research universities to the development of groundbreaking new medical procedures, and the resulting financially lucrative patents, it was feared that the universities would impose strict limitations on their faculty about the sharing of research with other institutions. Aside from being antithetical to the free exchange of ideas expected in an educational setting, these limitations would have the more insidious effect of slowing the development of potentially life-saving medical technology.

Which of the following, if true, would tend to most seriously weaken the prediction of technological stagnation described above?

A)Medical research conducted by academic institutions has developed some technologies that are of major practical importance to every hospital and care facility in the country.

B)When the results of medical research are not shared, governmental institutions are unable to build on those results.

C)While it may not seem troublesome for corporate institutions to profit off of the patents on their technological developments, it is morally questionable that the same activity takes place at an academic institution, given the importance most universities put on unbiased research.

D)To enhance their standing in the medical and academic communities, and their ability to win future research grants, the universities encourage their faculty to publish their results on a regular basis in all of the standard medical journals.

E)Academic institutions often devote some of their financial and human resources to researching purely academic scientific questions, and this research is normally not expected to produce any new technologies or otherwise make money for the university.

OA after a little discussion !

Updated : OA D