The phrase "authoritative scientific" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe information or sources that are recognized as reliable and credible within the scientific community.
Example: "The report was based on authoritative scientific research, ensuring the findings were trustworthy and valid."
Alternatives: "reliable scientific" or "credible scientific".
Generally speaking, this evidence critiques the idea that there is a single public, waiting passively to receive authoritative scientific information.
Writing in the journal Neuron, the researchers concluded that "logically irrelevant neuroscience information imbues an argument with authoritative, scientific credibility".
Arguably in this case transparency should trump the journal's prerogative but there exists no authoritative scientific body or procedure that could oblige Nature — the publication of a private company — to release the referees' reports.
But I would like to see them referred to authoritative scientific or medical literature - not to a trade organisation whose business it is to promote the sale of pesticides".
Indeed several recent, authoritative scientific assessments have reached conflicting conclusions.
In social science, due to the lack of authoritative scientific institutions, Type B evaluations will be of a different character.
Statements appearing in authoritative popular scientific literature in this instance, Scientific American such as, "It is virtually impossible to imagine how a cell's machines, which are mostly protein-based catalysts called enzymes, could have formed spontaneously as life first arose from non-living matter around 3.7 billion years ago" (Ricardo and Szostak 2009) exacerbate the situation.
At the same time the critics of the RBCT highlight these uncertainties to argue that the experiment is flawed: this elides the clear difficulties involved in producing authoritative, incontestable scientific knowledge about this issue in the first place.
It was one of his greatest coups as this authoritative account of scientific discovery became a world bestseller.
The report aims to be an authoritative reference on scientific research, legislation and policy issues associated with the drug in Europe.
However, this apparent desire to be the definitively authoritative source for scientific veracity has come at a price.
