scientific establishment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofscientificandestablishment
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scientific
adjective
uk/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/us/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/
relating to science, or using the organized methods ...
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establishment
noun
uk/ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/us/ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/
a business or other organization, or the place where an ...
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(Definition ofscientificandestablishmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The political opposition centered around three groups which were indispensable to the state in fulfilling his vision: the nobility, the clergy, and thescientificestablishment.
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The hygienists' emphasis on preventive mental health care likely helped encourage thescientificestablishmentof normative standards of children's cognitive and emotional behaviors.
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Suppose, on the one hand, that we have a physicist who spends the bulk of his career as an elite functionary for thescientificestablishment.
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These people are the pillars of thescientificestablishment: they say that the foundations beneath them are crumbling.
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Some new branches of science were very much frowned upon by thescientificestablishmentwhen they began.
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Any scientist who was not seen as part of thescientificestablishmentwas excluded.
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He read physics at university and, like many folk in thescientificestablishment, may tend to lean towards the nuclear side.
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But even allowing for this style, plus the challenging substance, surely sections of thescientificestablishmentcould have reacted a little less stridently.
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I believe that one reason that that was so is because thescientificestablishmenthas made up its mind that embryonic research is the way to go.
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Individuals were introduced into ascientificestablishmentin disguise and led people into traps in conversation and then reported their conversations to the authorities to be used subsequently against them.
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I have had letters from practically everyscientificestablishmentin the country complaining that the administrative officer grade is so much ahead of other scientific grades.
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How many people on those committees, which have decided what is or is not therapeutic in relation to given science, took a view contrary to that of thescientificestablishment?
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It poked vitriolic fun at thescientificestablishmentof the day.
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He did not shy away from criticising thescientificestablishmentwhen he felt it was failing to put patients' interests first.
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In contrast to its earlier incarnation, the place became more of a show-hall than a seriousscientificestablishment.
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This popularised the idea, but it was strongly condemned by thescientificestablishment.
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Falb also met the most determined resistance from thescientificestablishmenton geophysical grounds.
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It made fun of thescientificestablishmentof the day.
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Thescientificestablishmentremained hostile to the ideas, but the book had converted a vast popular audience.
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In the 1890s her mycological illustrations and research into the reproduction of fungus spores generated interest from thescientificestablishment.
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