Critical Reasoning

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the introduction of new therapeutic agents into the marketplace. Consequently, it plays a critical role in improving health care in the United States. While it is those in the academic and government research communities who engage in the long process of initial discovery and clinical testing of new therapeutic agents, it is the FDA’s role and responsibility to facilitate the transfer of new discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace. Only after the transfer can important new therapies help patients.
Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?

(A) The FDA is responsible for ensuring that any therapeutic agent that is marketed is then regulated.

(B) Before new therapeutic agents reach the marketplace they do not help patients.

(C) The research community is responsible for the excessively long testing period for new drugs, not the FDA.

(D) The FDA should work more closely with researchers to ensure that the quality of therapeutic agents is maintained.

(E) If a new medical discovery has been transferred from the laboratory to the marketplace, it will help patients.

aj5105 wrote:The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the introduction of new therapeutic agents into the marketplace. Consequently, it plays a critical role in improving health care in the United States. While it is those in the academic and government research communities who engage in the long process of initial discovery and clinical testing of new therapeutic agents, it is the FDA’s role and responsibility to facilitate the transfer of new discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace. Only after the transfer can important new therapies help patients.
Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?

(A) The FDA is responsible for ensuring that any therapeutic agent that is marketed is then regulated.

(B) Before new therapeutic agents reach the marketplace they do not help patients.

(C) The research community is responsible for the excessively long testing period for new drugs, not the FDA.

(D) The FDA should work more closely with researchers to ensure that the quality of therapeutic agents is maintained.

(E) If a new medical discovery has been transferred from the laboratory to the marketplace, it will help patients.

I go with D.

Please post the correct answer and will post my way of deducing the answer, if correct.

IMO B

I was confused a bit between B and E , but will go with B

OA please?

IMO E.

Thanks
Raama

IMO B

(A) The FDA is responsible for ensuring that any therapeutic agent that is marketed is then regulated.
Introduction of therapies are regulated........first sentence


(B) Before new therapeutic agents reach the marketplace they do not help patients.
correct........Last stmt


(C) The research community is responsible for the excessively long testing period for new drugs, not the FDA.

Extreme word, excessively

(D) The FDA should work more closely with researchers to ensure that the quality of therapeutic agents is maintained.
IRrelevant

(E) If a new medical discovery has been transferred from the laboratory to the marketplace, it will help patients. There is a possibility not certainty in the argument

IMO - B

Argument - Only after the transfer can important new therapies help patients.

Therefore, B can be inferred from the argument.

IMO B...

E says

If a new medical discovery has been transferred from the laboratory to the marketplace, it will help patients.

I guess "medical discoveries" are different from "therapeutic agents". Medical discoveries is a too general term to attribute it to helping of patients.
Please post the OA

aj5105 wrote:The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the introduction of new therapeutic agents into the marketplace. Consequently, it plays a critical role in improving health care in the United States. While it is those in the academic and government research communities who engage in the long process of initial discovery and clinical testing of new therapeutic agents, it is the FDA’s role and responsibility to facilitate the transfer of new discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace. Only after the transfer can important new therapies help patients.
Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?

(A) The FDA is responsible for ensuring that any therapeutic agent that is marketed is then regulated.

(B) Before new therapeutic agents reach the marketplace they do not help patients.

(C) The research community is responsible for the excessively long testing period for new drugs, not the FDA.

(D) The FDA should work more closely with researchers to ensure that the quality of therapeutic agents is maintained.

(E) If a new medical discovery has been transferred from the laboratory to the marketplace, it will help patients.

My answer: C
1. Researchers discover drugs and perform testing
2. FDA transfers drug from lab to market
3. After transfer, drug can help patients.

A,B,D are nowhere stated in the problem.
E: problem says that drugs "can" help the patient, but it is not a 100% guarantee that they will.
C: same as what is said in the problem statement.

I'm swayed. looks like B it is.

The whole Q stem talks abt FDA. Where is it lost in B? That rules it out.

IMO D. As argument says that though researches do the testing for the agents, but its FDA who finally passes it to marketplace. If they work closely with researchers, the quality of the agents can be maintained.

@aj5105 OA please.

B

Only after the transfer can important new therapies help patients.

THATS WAT b SAYS

aj5105 wrote:The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the introduction of new therapeutic agents into the marketplace. Consequently, it plays a critical role in improving health care in the United States. While it is those in the academic and government research communities who engage in the long process of initial discovery and clinical testing of new therapeutic agents, it is the FDA’s role and responsibility to facilitate the transfer of new discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace. Only after the transfer can important new therapies help patients.
Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?

(A) The FDA is responsible for ensuring that any therapeutic agent that is marketed is then regulated.

(B) Before new therapeutic agents reach the marketplace they do not help patients.

(C) The research community is responsible for the excessively long testing period for new drugs, not the FDA.

(D) The FDA should work more closely with researchers to ensure that the quality of therapeutic agents is maintained.

(E) If a new medical discovery has been transferred from the laboratory to the marketplace, it will help patients.

Apply contrapositive.
"Only after the transfer can important new therapies help patients."

The contrapositive of this sentence is "before transfer,new therapies do not help",which is essentially what B says. Choose B with confidence.

IMO B