Definition of "scientific" []

• Of, relating to, or employing the methodology of science. (adjective)

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• "What Googled list does not contain is any scientific discussion and there is plenty in modern science which is pressing “scientific consensus” as an argument of validity for some theory."
• "As the scientific group pointed out, "agricultural and veterinary leaders continue to believe, in spite of overwhelming ­scientific evidence to the contrary, that the main approach to cattle TB control must involve some form of badger population control"."
• "Excellent patterns, celestial exemplars, of the things required were held up to it; and endless declamation and argument why it should be that, and not the other, were not wanting: -- but as to any scientific inquiry into the nature of the thing on which this form was to be superinduced, as to any _scientific_ exhibition of the form itself which was to be superinduced, these so essential conditions of the proposed result, were in this case alike wanting."