单选题:根据下列文章,请回答题。Science and Truth“FINAGLE”(欺骗)is not a word that

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根据下列文章,请回答题。Science and Truth“FINAGLE”(欺骗)is not a word that most people associate with science.onereason is that the image of the scientist is of one who ways__________(1)data in animpartial(不偏不倚的)search for truth.In any debate__________(2)intelligence,schoolin9,energy—the phrase“science says”usually disarms opposition.
But scientists have Iong acknowledged the exis tence of a“finagle factor”—atendency by many scientists to give a helpfuI change to the data to__________(3)desired results.The Iatest of the finagle factor in action:omes from Stephen Jay Gould.A Harvard biologist.who has__________(4)the important 19th century work of Dr.Samuel George Morton.Morton was famous in h s time for analysing the brain__________(5) of the skulls as a measure of intelligence.He concluded that whites hadthe Iargest brains。that the brains of indians and blacks were smaller,and__________(6),that whites constitute a superior race.
Gould went back to Morton’s onginal data and concluded that the__________(7)were an example of the finagle at work.He found that morton’s“discovery”was made by leaving out embarrassing data,__________(8)incorr,;ct procedures。and changing his criteria-again.always in favour of his argumer t.Morton has been thoroughly discredited by now and scientists do not believe thaf br jin size reflects__________(9).But Gould went on to say Morton’s story iS only an example of a common problem in__________ (10)Work.Some of the leading figures in science are__________(11)to have used the finagle factor.Gould says that Isaac Newon fudged out(捏造)to support at least three central statements that he could not prove. And so __________ (12) Laudius Ptolemy, the Greek astronomer, whose master work, Almagest, summed up the case for a solar system that had the earth as its centre. Recent __________(13) indicate that Ptolemy either faked some key data or resorted heavily to the finagle factor.
All this is important because the finagle factor is still at work. For example, in the artificial sweetener controversy, for example, it is __________(14) that all the studies sponsored by the sugar industry find that the artificial sweetener is unsafe,__________ (15) all the studies sponsored by the diet food industry find nothing wrong with it. A.collects
B.invents
C.misuses
D.enables
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