D
Scientific research at a certain university was supported in part by an annual grant from a major foundation. When the university' s physics department embarked on weapons-related research, the foundation, which has a purely humanitarian mission, threatened to cancel its grant. The university then promised that none of the foundation' s money would be used for the weapons research, whereupon the foundation withdrew its threat, concluding that the weapons research would not benefit from the foundation' s grant. Which one of the following describes a flaw in the reasoning underlying the foundation's conclusion?
A: It assumes that if the means to achieve an objective are humanitarian in character, then the objective is also humanitarian in character.
B: It overlooks the possibility that the university made its promise specifically in order to induce the foundation to withdraw its threat.
C: It overlooks the possibility that the physics department's weapons research is not the only one of the university's research activities with other than purely humanitarian purposes.
D: It overlooks the possibility that the availability of the foundation's money for humanitarian uses will allow the university to redirect other funds from humanitarian uses to weapons research.