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ARGUMENT 35：The following appeared in the summary of a study on headaches suffered by the residents of Mentia.
"Salicylates are members of the same chemical family as aspirin, a medicine used to treat headaches. Although many foods are naturally rich in salicylates, for the past several decades food-processing companies have also been adding salicylates to foods as preservatives. This rise in the commercial use of salicylates has been found to correlate with a steady decline in the average number of headaches reported by participants in our twenty-year study. Recently, food-processing companies have found that salicylates can also be used as flavor additives for foods. With this new use for salicylates, we can expect a continued steady decline in the number of headaches suffered by the average citizen of Mentia."
a、
头痛的真正原因是什么？
b、
那个20年的研究具体情况没介绍，也许研究的是哪种药品对头疼更有效呢？如果有好的药品，头痛的人数肯定会减少的。这个在没说明之前，他的数据不可信。
c、
很多化学药品都有副作用，那么Salicylates呢？
一定适合citizen of Mentia ? 一定能起到作用吗？

The summary claims that the Salicylates can decline the number of headaches suffered and the citizen of Mentia who suffered headaches can take the Salicylates as medicine. To support this claim the summary points out that the research and the food companies can prove this. Careful examination of this supporting evidence, however, reveals that it lends little credible support to the claim.
First of all, the summary of the study don’t give the reason of the headaches, it is entirely possible that some knock on the head, or just psychological headache, or illness, and so forth. If we don’t find the real reason, it is cursory to conclude that the Salicylates can reduce headaches. Maybe there are some elements, which we have not found, in the food that can cure the headaches.
Secondly, the claim base on the Twenty-year study. But we don’t know the details of the study, what does the research do? It is entirely possible that the study whether some medicines can cure headaches well. For that matter, maybe some medicines are available to remedy headaches. Then it is no surprise that the number of the patients reduced. The food-processing companies added Salicylates to foods as preservatives, whether there are some other elements added in the foods? If so, whether these elements can cure the headaches? If so, the study can’t lend significant support to the summary.
Finally, the researchers expect the Salicylates continue to decliane the number of the headaches suffered by the citizen of Mrntia. Assume the Salicylates can cure headaches, but without the detail information about the citizen of the Mentia, and without the information of the side effects of Salicylates, for the different medicines suit the special patients and different people should give medicine that suit their corporeity, it is rashly to conclude that Salicylates can use to cure the patients of Mentia.
In sum, the summary about Salicylates is untenable. To bolster it researchers should provide clearer evidence about the information of Salicylates, and the etiologies of the headaches, and the detail of the study, and the corporeity of the citizen of Mentia. Then give the rational reasoning to support the claims.

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