"scientific footing" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the basis or foundation of a scientific concept or theory. Example: The new study on climate change is based on solid scientific footing, with extensive research and data analysis supporting its findings.
Smellie placed midwifery on a sound scientific footing and helped to establish obstetrics as a recognized medical discipline.
His aim, to put the study of this new kind of terrorism on to a scientific footing, has not changed.
Psychiatry has at last fully joined its fellows in medical departments and attained a sound scientific footing.
On a more solid scientific footing, Ms. Beresford-Kroeger is also concerned about the fate of the Northern forests because of overharvest and the destruction of ecosystems.
Most vaccines are made in ways which would be familiar to Louis Pasteur, the 19th-century French polymath who put vaccination on a scientific footing.
Did he intend to undermine the irrational and merely conventional aspects of religious practice and thus to place religion on a scientific footing?
After university, Roget's early attempts to find his scientific feet brought him into contact, usually of a disappointing sort, with several eminences of the day.
In most countries and in all scientific applications, the foot, with its multiples and subdivisions, has been superseded by the metre, the basic linear unit in the metric system.
In 2009 the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) imaged the various Apollo landing sites on the surface of the Moon with sufficient resolution to see the descent stages of the lunar modules, scientific instruments, and foot trails made by the astronauts.
Modern sources point to three different heights: 11249 feet, a 1991 measurement by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey (NGS), 11240 feet based on a 1993 scientific expedition, and 11239 feet of slightly older origin.
Many critics contend that reconciling science and religion is not possible, and that studies to that end are naïve, quixotic or motivated by a desire to put religious beliefs on an equal footing with scientific knowledge.
