Multiple choice

Researcher: Chocolates are healthy for teeth, despite what is commonly said. After all, most dentists do consume chocolate, and who knows more about dental health than dentists do? Which one of the following is a flaw in the researcher’s reasoning?

  1. Attacking the challengers’ intentions than their reasoning

  2. Concluding on the basis of a set consisting of typical cases

  3. Assuming at the beginning what the argument claims to assert through rationalizing

  4. Appealing to authority, even when contrarian advice is proffered by different authorities

  5. Supposing that experts do not act against what, according to their expertise, is in their best interest
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E Correct answer
Explanation

The researcher is only presenting the actions of dentists to prove his case, something that cannot be taken to be a benchmark for infallibility of his arguments. Hence (5)

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