He stated that many well-founded beliefs are not scientific and, conversely, many scientific conjectures are not well-founded.

Zarefsky pioneered a policy debate "judging paradigm" called "hypothesis testing," which spells out how debate judges can draw metaphorically upon the scientific method's process of weighing scientific conjectures and refutations.

Though locked away, Kennewick Man was the object of scientific conjecture, legal interpretation and impassioned debate at a two-day symposium here.

According to the best scientific conjecture.

And as for science being unable to explain religion,well I am sure psychologists,anthropologists and sociologists have had a good go,as well as the rather less scientific conjecture of philosophers and psychiatrists.

Although there is no absolute distinction between astronomy and astrology in antiquity, intellectual circles in Alexandria during the 1st BCE began to distinguish between astrology for making predictions and astronomical observation for scientific conjecture.

It was their job to ferret through the maze of scientific conjecture and fanciful epidemiological models to glean the pearls from the rubbish.

Then in 1985 came the first big bloom of brown tide algae, whose cause is still the subject of scientific conjecture.

Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter complained that Primer "nearly gets lost in a miasma of technical jargon and scientific conjecture."