Sentence examples for scientifically legitimate from inspiring English sources

The question of whether non-human animals enjoy it too is a perennial – and scientifically legitimate – question to ask.

"If there was manipulation of data that was not scientifically legitimate, yes, I regard that as a problem and I would denounce it," Holdren said.

Efforts to portray a global cooling trend since the record hot year of 1998 are "not scientifically legitimate," and are the result of "people coming at the data with preconceived notions," according to David Peterson, a retired Duke University statistics professor who analyzed the data for AP.

Sometimes staff simply did not see particular interventions as being scientifically legitimate.

To consider this general flaw of conceptualization, new categories such as "scientifically legitimate decisions" [ 31, 32] or "justifiable guideline divergence" decisions [ 43] seem to be more appropriate to relax the rigid distinction between guideline adherence and divergence.

On the other hand, the RIVM's task and interest was to deliver scientifically legitimate knowledge products and, to achieve this, both the necessity of stakeholders' involvement and publication of the risk models should have been considered.

One doctor has apparently sold "over 200,000" copies of a book promoting "a legitimate, scientifically proven, stunningly effective treatment for the fatigue and mental confusion that accompany rapid travel through time zones".

Good journalism is not served by creating a kind of moral equivalence between those who hold extreme, ideological, discredited anti-biotech views and those with legitimate, scientifically defensible viewpoints not unlike equating creationism with Darwinian theory.

For example, for report cards to be more scientifically and morally legitimate to clinicians, physician-specific quantitative measures should not be reported within report cards unless data meet reliable criteria, such as originating from a sufficiently large sample size over a sufficient period of time, utilizing commonly accepted risk-adjustment methods, and including a validation process.

The 2009 report can be read as a palliative of sorts, politically savvy enough to give voice to our legitimate fears and scientifically credible enough to assuage them at the same time.

Of course, even if one takes the MSM's latest 'sky is falling' scenario at face value, health risks connected with pot use -- when scientifically documented -- should not be seen as legitimate reasons for criminal prohibition, but instead, as reasons for the plant's legal regulation.