GMAT Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: With Emergence of Biotechnology Companies, it was feared

As it is a CR question, lets read the Question stem first. The question is asking to most seriously weaken the prediction of scientific secrecy - which means this is WEAKEN THE ARGUMENT question

Premise:

With emergence of Biotechnology companies, it was feared that it the companies would impose silence about the proprietary results on their in-house research and their academicconsultants

Conclusion :
This limitation would slow the development of the biological science and engineering.

As this is a weaken
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