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by harish » Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:03 am
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Recently political pressure groups have become far more effective at persuading industrial corporations to change. For example, as a result of the efforts of animal rights groups, many pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies have reduced their use of laboratory animals, substituting in their place alter native methods of product testing.

Which of the following, if true, casts the most serious doubt on the connection between pressure group activity and corporate change claimed above?

(A) Many companies in the pharmaceutical industry have increased their public relations spending in order to counter the activity of animal rights groups.
(B) Before he new methods of testing products are used, they have to be calibrated by comparison tests involving experiments on laboratory animals.
(C) When companies stop using laboratory animals, they generally go to some expense to publicize this change of policy.
(D) The pharmaceutical manufacturers who still use laboratory animals are mostly the smaller firms that have been less subject to pressure group activity.
(E) The methods of product testing that do not involve laboratory animals are faster and cheaper than the methods that do.

Answer is E
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by sumant1808 » Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:48 am
Yes E is correct, it shows that cos have changed their stratergy because alternative methods are faster and cheaper not because of the political groups.
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by NSNguyen » Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:05 am
If i were the pharmaceutical manufacturer, i also prefer using the new testing method.
E is my choice.
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by peter.p.81 » Wed May 11, 2016 12:36 am
I would go for E as well. It seems the best and safest among the rest.
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