His chief merit as a jurist lay in breaking with past unscientific methods in the teaching of Roman law and in making its spirit intelligible to students.

LEAD: Sometimes science is served best by unscientific methods.

This work was criticized for unscientific methods, but today it is commonly accepted that he contributed significantly to the preservation of the traditional ballads.

The Vulcan shook his head, feeling strong disapprobation for the unscientific methods employed by the Klingons.

He estimated, using the admittedly unscientific method of counting the number of Red Sox jerseys onboard the plane, that at least 100 fans were on his flight.

I think a major problem is that back in the '80s a group of scientists really believed in AGW and their unscientific methods are now coming home to roost.

In 1869 he became a professor at the University of Kazan, but soon was barred from teaching for his outspoken criticism of the unscientific methods used.

"Chrysler's customer service satisfaction surveys are a highly subjective, unscientific and inaccurate method for determining the quality of a dealer's service," Lowe said.

"It is malpractice on the part of public health services to offer an untested, unscientific method as a real alternative."

This unconventional, unscientific and unreliable method of research was the undoing of the study, which was proved wrong by looking at the actual payroll records.