(C) says, "It is preferable for scientists to restrict their studies to phenomena that are observable and forego making estimates about unobservable things."
(C) weakens the recommendation because it's simply telling us not to follow through on the recommendation since it's based on estimates. Estimating the probability of life on other planets involves estimates of the unobservable, so we can get rid of (C).
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