The following appeared in an article in a consumer-products magazine.
Two of today’s best-selling brands of full-strength prescription medication for the relief of excess stomach acid, Acid-Ease and Pepticaid, are now available in milder nonprescription forms. Doctors have written 76 million more prescriptions for full-strength Aced-Ease than for full-strength Pepticaid. So people who need an effective but milder nonprescription medication for the relief of excess stomach acid should choose Acid-Ease.
[em08]作者: zoeboy 时间: 2002-11-5 21:46
1。 FALSE ANALOGY
2。 FALSE ASSUMPTION 76 million does not provide evidence for the effectiveness of Acid-Ease
3。 76 million本身是个问题。凡是牵涉到数字的都有问题。 76 million从哪儿来的,biased or not? 是否具有说服力。
4. ALL THINGS ARE EQUAL 假设Acid-Ease仍旧对将来适用,the former causal-effect relationship still works in the future.作者: maryland 时间: 2002-11-5 21:47