Statement: Science is a sort of news agency comparable in principle to other news agencies. But this news agency gives us information which is reliabl...
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Statement: Science is a sort of news agency comparable in principle to other news agencies. But this news agency gives us information which is reliable to an extraordinarily high degree due to elaborate techniques of verification and its capacity to survive centuries. So, science should be read with as much interest as we read news.
Assumptions:
I. Science encourages investigative spirit.
II. People read news out of interest.
Which of the following assumptions is/are implicit in the above statement?