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从2006年2月4日15时5分到2006年2月4日15时41分
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The following appeared in a medical newsletter.
'Doctors have long suspected that secondary infections may keep some patients from healing quickly after severe muscle strain. This hypothesis has now been proved by preliminary results of a study of two groups of patients. The first group of patients, all being treated for muscle injuries by Dr. Newland, a doctor who specializes in sports medicine, took antibiotics regularly throughout their treatment. Their recuperation time was, on average, 40 percent quicker than typically expected. Patients in the second group, all being treated by Dr. Alton, a general physician, were given sugar pills, although the patients believed they were taking antibiotics. Their average recuperation time was not significantly reduced. Therefore, all patients who are diagnosed with muscle strain would be well advised to take antibiotics as part of their treatment.
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At the first glance of this argument, it seems reasonable. However, after a scrutiny, several important flaws shows up.

First of all, the arguer assumps that two groups of patients devided by the experimenter as he mentioned are under the same circumstances, which includes age, sex, occupation, and other physical conditions. Take age for example, if the first group is constituted with young people, while the second one is made up of the olds, obviously we can not compare them at the same time. In this way, the conclusion of the argument makes no sense. It is the same reason that if there are other obvious differences whether mentioned above or not between the two groups, I can not admit the arguer's conclusion.

Even if I admit that the two groups of patients are nearly in the same condition, the arguer failed to convince me that the experience of Dr. Alton, the general physician of the second group is as the same level of Dr. Newland, the doctor who specializes in sports medicine. As we all know, a specialistic doctor is more experienced than a general doctor in the very speciality, though the general doctor may know some in every field of physic. In the case the argument mentioned, it is possible that Dr. Alton of the second group know little about the muscle injuries. In this aspect, the result of the above experiment is not convinced.

Although the two doctor's experiences are the same, the arguer still lacks evidence to show me that the sugar pills gave no harm to prevent the patients from recovery. What kind of the sugar pills is not mentioned, so it can not exclude the possibility that it interfered the effect of other medicine which Dr. Alton gave to the patients. On the other hand, even the sugar pills do no harm, the antibiotics may cause some side-effect to the patients although
they seem effective superficially.

To sum up, this argument lacks enough evidence to convince me with his conclusion. The arguer should show more evidence to support his viewpoint.