Although, many theorists have provided plausible motivation for alien visitation, skeptics still point to a lack of scientific plausibility.
As such, the review examined the scientific plausibility of schemes rather than the practical considerations such as engineering feasibility or economic cost.
It was less insistent on scientific plausibility than Campbell's Astounding.
He set a standard for scientific and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality.
Given that the wormhole beings lived outside of time, such prophecies had at least a smattering of scientific plausibility behind them.
The collection is billed as fantasy, which means that the authors are free to ignore both everyday reality and scientific plausibility in constructing their fictions.
It was in the allied field of fantasy (as imaginative as science fiction, but without the restriction of requiring scientific plausibility).
Microbiologists and geneticists were skeptical towards the scientific plausibility of such a biological agent.
The scientific plausibility of Magneto shifting the magnetic poles in order to create an ecological disaster had also garnered criticism.
And so Jake's interviewer, abandoning scientific plausibility, raised the cloning angle.