Nutritionists and dentists offer contradictory advice to parents with regard to the eating of Halloween candy. Nutritionists advise parents to make their children eat a small amount of candy each day over a long period of time. Dentists advise parents to let their children eat all the candy at once.

Assuming that the above passage is accurate, which of the following statements can be inferred from it?

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The dentists and the nutritionists cannot both be right; only further research will determine which advice is best.

Since experts disagree, it is obvious that they do not know as much as they claim to.\n

Dentists and nutritionists disagree because they are concerned about completely different health problems.

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Eating all the candy at once causes more cavities than eating the same amount of candy over a longer period of time.

The dentists are more scientific in their approach to the problem.

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