单选题 Which of the following statements would best serve as an introduction to the passage?

• (A) It is easy to see why the confusion of skepticism with relativism, or of justification with truth, is rationally so debilitating.
• (B) The presumption that genuine truth is possible without a measure of justification is a most mischievous error.
• (C) If scientists would stop lauding scientific rationality in the face of reason, irrationalism would be less popular.
• (D) Scientific hypotheses are not untrustworthy or unreliable except in the sense of being sometimes false.
• (E) Faced with their detractors, scientists characteristically retort that science, unlike witchcraft, works.