In most Western countries, parents use medicinal pills to help their children overcome simple viral illnesses such as the flu. These pills help the children overcome the flu, but they also have the effect of preventing the immune system from dealing with the viruses themselves, thus not allowing the immune system to fully develop. It is estimated that an immune system that hasnt had to handle simple viral diseases such as the flu will be unable to deal with lethal viral diseases such as Ebola, smallpox or the Dengue virus. Therefore, by giving children pills to handle simple diseases, parents are actually harming them.
Which of the following would be most useful to determine in order to evaluate the argument above?
A. What the most common pills against viral illnesses such as the flu are.
B. Whether the infant mortality rates for children in the West are higher now relative to what they were in the past.
C. Whether the lethal viral diseases mentioned are found in Western countries.
D. What percentage of parents in Western countries actually give their children pills
E. Whether new pills will be developed that will both defeat simple illnesses and aid the development of the immune system.![]()
Which of the following would be most useful to determine in order to evaluate the argument above?
A. What the most common pills against viral illnesses such as the flu are.
B. Whether the infant mortality rates for children in the West are higher now relative to what they were in the past.
C. Whether the lethal viral diseases mentioned are found in Western countries.
D. What percentage of parents in Western countries actually give their children pills
E. Whether new pills will be developed that will both defeat simple illnesses and aid the development of the immune system.