scientific fact

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scientific fact - an observation that has been confirmed repeatedly and is accepted as true (although its truth is never final)

observation - facts learned by observing; "he reported his observations to the mayor"

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The only values he recognized were mathematical and scientific facts.

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standards rooted and supported in scientific fact not fiction and fear," Deavenport said.

EASTMAN CEO CALLS UPON INDUSTRY TO ACT UNIFORMLY TO PROMOTE REFORMS BASED ON SOUND SCIENCE AND RISK-BASED MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES; CALLS FOR THIRD PARTY VERIFICATION

This multifold, billion-dollar damage is brought to us thanks in large part to a very simple scientific fact, a fact most seven-year-olds readily comprehend: When water freezes, it expands.

Why American roads all go to pot

That it does so is a scientific fact recognized and attested to in all human embryology textbooks today, and first demonstrated over a hundred years ago by Wilhelm His, the father of human embryology.

On the latest stem cell 'breakthrough'

Televison cops rely on hunches and guesses instead of scientific fact.

Forensic school is a Cracker

I suggest that he is the one that is irrational, as the proof of God's existence is a scientific fact backed by mathematics.

PUBLIC FORUM HE'S JOKING, RIGHT?

But if Rivetz would go to the library and check out books on theodicy or natural theology he would find out that an incontinent entity (First Cause) that created the universe is a scientific fact.

PUBLIC FORUM DOWNTOWN FRUSTRATIONS

This statement ignores the scientific fact that a human being comes into existence at the fertilization of an ovum by a sperm, and that an embryo is aborted by the MAP that prevents implantation of the embryo in the uterus.

The "morning after" pill and the abortion rate

We're grateful to Congress for taking the steps necessary to assure that public policy on EMF will be based on scientific fact," said James M.

NY UTILITIES HELP FUND NATIONAL EMF RESEARCH

The indisputable fact is that now, one year later, there has not been one scintilla of new scientific fact or government findings that supports advertising warnings.

SPIRITS INDUSTRY REJECTS CALL FOR ADVERTISING WARNINGS

Hew and colleagues urge runners to "listen to their own bodies and achieve the appropriate balance of fluids based on scientific fact instead of popular fiction.

Low Sodium in Marathon Runners Linked to Fluid Overload

This is the same industry that continues to deny that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer in habitual cigarette smokers, a scientific fact established almost 40 years ago.