Why does Time Magazine Use the Word Like This?
By LingoWang
@LingoWang (156)
China
December 8, 2009 6:41pm CST
Hi pals! I met a question whiling reading the article from Time magazine. Could u help me out?I know that in a negative sentence, normally "and" is substituted with "or", but why here they use "and" not "or"? (See the last line of the paragraph below)
If the brouhaha following a government advisory panel's recent change in br*east-cancer-screening recommendations has proved anything, it is that even morden medicine does not rely on statistics,scientific facts and clinical outcomes alone.
(Time Magazine)
Many thanks
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@LingoWang (156)
• China
9 Dec 09
And could you please supply me with some more sentence examples like these kinds?
many thanks#$%
@RebeccaScarlett (2532)
• Canada
14 Jan 11
Modern medicine is often accused of relying on statistics, scientific facts, and clinical outcomes alone.
This sentence is saying the opposite, that modern medicine does not always rely on these things.
If the sentence had said "or" the meaning would be different. It would mean that modern medicine does not rely on ONLY one of the three things, but it could rely on two of them, or all three.
Think of it like this:
"x, y, and z are not true"
vs:
"x, y, or z are not true"
