Scientist: The appropriate way to discover how best to market manufactured products is to apply the methods of anthropology. Of course not all theorists agree. But clearly, the reason that marketing techniques and practices have developed is to help satisfy consumer demand most efficiently. How such marketing techniques and practices have developed can be scientifically studied by anthropologists.
To which of the following criticisms is the scientist’s argument most vulnerable?
(A) The argument overlooks the possibility that one type of scientific inquiry may not be successful for studying every type of process.
(B) the argument fails to support the implicit claim that merely tracing the development of marketing techniques and practices make clear which ones are best.
(C) The argument assumes, without providing justification, that the conduct of scientific inquiry is not itself affected by marketing techniques and practices
(D) The argument overlooks the possibility that marketing techniques and practices may be applicable even in domains that do not affect consumer demand.
(E) The argument's premise that anthropologists can scientifically study how marketing techniques developed assumes that most anthropologists are skilled in applying marketing techniques.