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With the emergence of biotechnology companies,it was feared that they would impose silence about proprietary results on their in-house researchers and their academic consultants. This constraint, in turn, would slow the development of biological science and engineering.

Which of the following, if true, would tend to weaken most seriously the prediction of scientific secrecy described above?

(A) Biotechnological research funded by industry has reached some conclusions that are of major scientfic importance.

(B)When the results of scientific research are kept secret, independent researchers are unable to build on those results.

(C)Since the research priorities of biotechnology companies are not the same as those of academic institutions, the financial support of research by such companies distorts the research agenda.

(D)To enhance the companies' standing in the scientific community, the biotechnology compnies encourage employees to publish their results, especially results that are important.

(E)Biotechnology companies devote some of their research resourced to problems that are of fundamental scientific importance and that are not expected to produce immediate practical applications.

结论是keep secrecy->slow the development ，选项D其实是断桥，说没有keep secrecy,所以是直接削弱。不明白OG对E的解释。为什么跟原文一致呢？还是说是一种加强？因为即使公开也不会speed up the development? 哪位高人指点一下啊！