What fallacy, if any, is committed in the Scientists who work for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company have claimed that the smoke that nonsmokers are exposed to when others smoke in their vicinity poses no health hazard. But we cannot believe those scientists because the tobacco company pays them

a. no fallacy
b. confusing cause and effect
c. post hoc
d. genetic fallacy


d

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