The phrase "a speculative link between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a hypothetical or uncertain connection between two or more concepts, ideas, or phenomena.
Example: "The researchers proposed a speculative link between climate change and the increase in extreme weather events."
Alternatives: "a conjectural connection between" or "a hypothetical relationship between".
This in turn has led to a speculative link to the daily inhalation of smoke in confined spaces from fuels used for warmth, cooking and lighting.
A limitation of this study is the speculative link between cervical strength and scrum collapse and thus injury risk.
Michael Fitzpatrick, GP and author of MMR and Autism: What Parents Need To Know, said: "My thoughts are with the families of autistic children who were dragged into futile litigation (more than 1,000 in the UK, more than 5,000 in the US) on the basis of Wakefield's speculative link between MMR and autism.
As we describe in detail above in response to reviewer point 3 above about the link between phosphorylation and dynamics, in the initial version of the manuscript we went too far in trying to firm up what was an admittedly speculative link.
The clinical significance of EGFL7 in CRC tissue is more speculative, suggesting a possible link between EGFL7 expression and RR to chemotherapy combined with bevacizumab.
In a way she is a link between two worlds.
Although any suggestion of a mechanistic link between neurosteroid and acetylcholinergic/GABAergic effects on attention is speculative, it may be pertinent that cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain exhibit high expression of the GABAA α3 subunit (54), the expression of which is reduced in the attentionally impaired 39,XO mouse (52).
It has been plausibly claimed that there is a general link between the rise of a political system, namely democracy, and the self-critical speculative thinking that characterizes the Greeks in and to some extent before the 5th century.
In fact, when we began our studies on the impact of nutrition on MS, there was not even the slightest clue that there could exist a real link between them, and the idea of the involvement of gut microbiota in MS was considered only very speculative.
A frightening link between vaccines and illnesses?
