Dr. Haynes finds that in her laboratory, bacterium X can be killed with antibiotic Y. However, Dr. Swensson does not observe this same result in her laboratory. What is the most plausible explanation for why this happened?

a. Dr. Haynes made up the results to survive in a publish-or-perish academic setting.
b. The results of biomedical experiments are often random, so this is not unusual.
c. Dr. Swensson made mistakes analyzing the data.
d. Dr. Swensson did not use the exact same procedure as Dr. Haynes.


D

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