cecybeans
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Improvise means:
1 : to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously
2 : to make, invent, or arrange offhand
3 : to make or fabricate out of what is conveniently on hand
A scientific theory is an accurate, predictive description. What many laymen don't understand is that a scientific theory is proveable fact, not an educated guess as to what might be true.
In science, the word theoretical refers to an idea that has not been proven to be a theory. LKB could have used theoretical to describe the same thing, but it wouldn't matter. Rearranging items in a crimescene investigation is not adhering to scientific method. It is completely unacceptable to ANY scientist. And it should be unacceptable to the general public as well because it is a very serious breach of ethics.
If the defense can prove this actually happened - there will be serious consequences.
I respectfully disagree; I think that is an anachronistic definition. Many theories are educated guesses and hotly debated amongst their professional proponents.
I assume you are leaving out string theory and various other in physics, astrophysics, medicine (particularly neurophysiology) etc. Even the "soft" social sciences like sociology, pyschology anthropology, history have conflicting theories. In some fields, it is more political (or based on the inertia of academic grant-making) than actual.
There is so much new debate in many of the supposed "hard" sciences about what is really accurately "predictive". I think the more real scientists know about the universe and biology the less they accept the fact that scientific theory is less "proveable" and more "probable".
For our purposes, all we need to deal with is "reasonable".