"scientific prediction" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a predicted outcome based on scientific evidence. For example, "The scientific prediction was that the drug would reduce levels of inflammation."
The Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP) Project (Jordan, 2006) has been organized to solve questions related to earthquake predictability and to develop an adequate experimental infrastructure to conduct scientific prediction experiments under rigorous conditions.
Many Americans will follow the solar eclipse on Monday because of a scientific prediction.
Eclipse mania will peak on Monday, when millions of Americans will upend their lives in response to a scientific prediction.
Each careful scientific prediction is rapidly overtaken by the horror of profound natural changes that seem to be accelerating, with old predictions routinely outdone by the worsening reality – hotter, colder, wetter, drier, windier, wilder, and ever more destructive.
He describes the mathematical models that are so critical to understanding the laws of nature and foretelling potentially lethal phenomena, the history of modeling and its prospects for success in the future, and the enormous challenges to scientific prediction posed by the chaos phenomenon, which is the high instability that underlies many processes around us.
It's not a new, testable scientific prediction, but rather a theoretical consequence that's unavoidable, based on the laws of physics as they're understood today.
Consumers are receiving scientific predictions about whether they'll go bald or get cancer.
Scientific predictions about Earth's sensitivity to greenhouse gases have generally held up.
But its future isn't in doubt – and the more hysterical of scientific predictions have proven nonsense.
All scientific predictions about future physical states – whether climate or one's own body – carry an irreducible level of uncertainty.
Until that time, we will continue to "stand around and wait" for scientific predictions to come true.
