scientific fact

collocation in English

meaningsofscientificandfact

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scientific
adjective
uk
/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/us
/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/
relating to science, or using the organized methods ...
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fact
noun[C or U]
uk
/fækt/us
/fækt/
something that is known to have happened or to exist, especially something for which proof exists, or about which there ...
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(Definition ofscientificandfactfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofscientific fact

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Why distort and indeed mislead public education and discussion by confusingscientificfactand science fiction?
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In addition, ascientificfactdoes not exist but develops all the time.
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What isscientificfactone day is determined to be incorrect the next.
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The strategy of questioning is analyzed as an explicit and implicit mode of criticism leveled at an establishedscientificfact.
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As yet, exercise prescription during pregnancy does not have a firm foundation inscientificfact.
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The justice that they were dispensing merely did not accord withscientificfact.
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Also, the years of observation, where no two prints from different people had ever been found to have the same details, became a colossal endorsement of thisscientificfact.
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Refusing a request for treatment by saying "because it is futile" seems to state a hard, cold,scientificfactfrom which there can be no appeal.
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Medical care, as opposed to medical science, is the ability to extrapolate thescientificfactto the imperfectly understood human situation.
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For all its rich detail and sweeping range, however, this is a disappointing effort that erects a highly tendentious argument about policy on a supposedly neutral basis ofscientificfact.
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This case study has also found that health policy and healthcare professionals affect the shaping of ' ascientificfact', in other words, in the making of an ageing disease.
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Scientificfactis accepted on the basis of the evidence, regardless of the incredible truth to which that evidence points.
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It isscientificfact, and there is clear and present danger that the human race needs to face up to sooner or later.
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That is ascientificfact, not a passionate policy comment on my part.
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This is not melodrama; this isscientificfact.
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Now we have to remember onescientificfact; gold does not dissolve in liquids other than cyanide.
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This is a genetic andscientificfactwhich would have serious consequences in just ten or twenty years.
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It is thescientificfactthat led to the new approach.
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The first opinion is on thescientificfactand the second is on the interpretation of policy on a site, which are wholly different.
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There is not the same wealth of theory by which to applyscientificfactto the solution of the technological problem.
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