【Flyer杀G作文组】1月18日Argument51-By mirth

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In this argument, the author  recommends all patients who have muscle strain to take antibiotics as part of their treatment. To justify the assertion, the newsletter cites the result of a study: the first group of patients, treated by a doctor famous for sports medicine, took antibiotics regularly,having a shorter recuperation time than expected while the other group, without medicine, had no significant effects. There exists several flaws in this argument.
At first, the argument unfairly concludes the effect of antibiotics. There is no medical research to justify the conclusion. In reality, a new discovery needs long-term observation and hundreds of experiments to verify. This short-term study is not enough.
Secondly, the arguer assumes  the patients enjoyed a better result just because the antibics. However, the author provides no evidence to support that this is the case, nor does the author establish a causual relationship between antibitics and muscle strain.  Maybe Dr. Newland had used other medicine together with antibiotic to treat the patients. It is highly possible that other factors might also bring about the same results. Without ruling out these and other possible factors that give rise to a shorter recuperation time, the author cannot confidently conclude that it is antibiotics rather than other treatments contribute to the recovery.  
Thirdly, the physical conditions of the two groups of patients were not clearly stated. Perhaps the conditions ofthe first group of patients were not as severe as those of the second group of people. Without accounting
In sum, the argument was not persuasive for the logical flaws as stated above. To better prove the conclusion, the author needs to explain the physical conditions of the the patients in detail and guarsntee that no other kinds of treatment were applied to the patients. Also, the arguer is required to do further investigation to prove the effectiveness of antibiotics.