The phrase "ad hoc science" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe scientific methods or approaches that are created for a specific purpose or problem, rather than being based on a general theory or principle.
Example: "The researchers employed ad hoc science to address the unique challenges presented by the environmental crisis in that region."
Alternatives: "specific-purpose science" or "tailored science".
An ad hoc science group of Environment Canada [22] reviewed degradation half-lives of a set of critical substances, mainly hydrophobic neutral organic compounds, such as PCBs, PAHs, PCDD/Fs.
Work by hormesis proponents over the last 10 15 years has included developing a body of ad hoc scientific approaches specific to hormesis and mixing ad hoc science with relatively strong advocacy, using diverse mechanisms for hormesis development as a biologic topic in dose response toxicology, human health risk assessment, and environmental regulatory policies.
Britain's reaction to the crisis experienced delays at every stage and, when it finally swung into action, was ad hoc and uncoordinated, the Commons science and technology committee says.
In addition, I do a lot of ad hoc reporting on every imaginable topic in science, including environment, space science, medicine, biotechnology, patents, policy, government budgeting, ocean and marine science, climate change, geology, earth observation, and so on.
Such training is rarely part of standard science curricula, though ad hoc training is coming online.
When applied to the celebrated Duhem (or Duhem-Quine) problem and to the related problem of the use of ad hoc, or supposedly ad hoc, hypotheses in science, it yields an elegant solution.
He is also an ad hoc reviewer for several journals, including Management Science.
Lord Krebs told BBC News that the current approach to science funding has been "ad hoc".
That ad hoc role gave him a taste for national science policy that has never waned, he says.
The approach of Rice's earth sciences department runs more toward the ad hoc, helping prospective graduate students schedule visits on an individual basis.
But such arrangements were ad hoc and fairly simple, said Olivier Rabin, the antidoping agency's science director.
