Rather, it says, the estimates represent the views of the scientific authorities commissioned by the agencies to write the report.

Struggle for scientific authority: the reception of Watson's behaviorism, 1913-1920.

He was a medical biochemist and a great scientific authority in the field of yeast development.

It is operated under the scientific authority of medicine, psychology, and criminology.

In this case, the term is a counterargument to appeals to scientific authority.

Would it be used, wrongly, to give a patina of scientific authority to group prejudices?

Incomplete as it is, however, the Kirchenrecht remains a work of the highest scientific authority.

He wants to bring scientific authority to, the aid of subversion.

A Science editor described him as "the principal scientific authority of the Fundamentalists".

He considered Aristotle to be the ultimate scientific authority.