The phrase "a scientific trial" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a structured study or experiment conducted to test hypotheses or evaluate the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention.
Example: "The researchers conducted a scientific trial to determine the efficacy of the new drug."
Alternatives: "a clinical trial" or "an experimental study".
But the effectiveness of the drug has not been documented in a scientific trial.
But the tension between this abstract and diminishing idea and its realization as a strange, aged, specific figure, with a strong, unostentatious but perfect body and a grave, unforgettable face — half Don Imus, half St. Jerome; Nicholl suggests that it is a self-portrait — gives the image a certain heroism, as though the individual had stoically lent himself for a scientific trial.
"Outside a scientific trial, it's a muddle".
The present research compares randomly selected 20-year-old men who took part in a scientific trial (efficacy) with those who voluntarily sought an intervention (effectiveness).
Remember in 2006 when a scientific trial went wrong and scientists accidentally gave a bloke an elephant's head and made all his toes and fingers fall off?
The main goal of clinical trial protocols is to present the aims, methods, and procedures of a scientific trial to investigators as well as to regulatory authorities.
The antipathy of many firms to calls for the publication of all scientific trial data – even when it relates to historical research – is enough to confirm that commercial sensitivities are often prioritised above the common weal.
Now, this was hardly a rigorous scientific trial, just a rough-and-ready experiment to satisfy passing curiosity.
It wasn't a rigid scientific trial, but many experts are convinced.
(If you go to the trouble of trapping a badger, sensible people would inject it with the vaccine that has proved effective in a four-year scientific trial).
The science behind the culls is uncertain; a decade-long scientific trial of badger culling concluded there were only modest benefits.
