Given the Cooperativity of Science, Which of the Following Is

Given the cooperativity of science, which of the following is most likely to result in an investigator being intellectually looked down upon by other scientists?

A) Making money as the result of studies in which a new medication is discovered.
B) Doing meticulous experiments that show data that contradict what has been previously reported by the scientific community.
C) Spending most of a lifetime investigating a small and seemingly unimportant organism.
D) Getting negative results from the same set of experiments.
E) Being found to have falsified or created data to better fit a hypothesis.