Another true note is the movie's brief but careful explanation of the scientific rationale for such a quest.

The thesis attempted to provide a "scientific" rationale for hatred at a time when legal restrictions on Jews were disappearing.

China has not disputed the scientific rationale behind global warming or denied the potential harm it could cause.

It drew upon centuries of Christian religious prejudice, and gave it a scientific rationale.

These research findings provided the scientific rationale for the formulation of Souvenaid.

Another concluded that "There is little or no scientific rationale for these methods.

Perhaps, but the judgment that these regional genetic tendencies constitute "races" has no deep scientific rationale, either.

The research was based on sound scientific rationale instead of political gains.

Over the next two decades he added ethical and scientific rationales to his defense of the wilderness concept.