GMAT Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: From time to time, the press indulges in outbursts of

Himikemcgarry ,

I loved your explanation ; Your side comments made it more effective and involving

I need a clarification w.r.t the last line in the argument :

Without this deception, Columbus’s sailors might well have mutinied, and the New World might never have been discovered
Would this not negate the statement in Option E??
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