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A researcher concludes that a new pesticide is safe for bees because a trial showed no bee deaths in a greenhouse. Critics argue that in the wild, bees encounter multiple stressors that are not present in a greenhouse.
What is the nature of the critics' objection?
- The pesticide is unsafe not merely for bees but for every species of insect that might encounter it.
- The experimental setting fails to represent the real-world conditions to which the conclusion is applied.
- The greenhouse trial in fact recorded several bee deaths that the researcher then quietly concealed from view.
- The researcher's underlying experimental data were deliberately and intentionally falsified before publication.
- The researcher should simply have run the very same trial inside a physically larger greenhouse.
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