Sometimes the word ["science"] degenerates into a vague honorific, synonymous with the advertiser's "reliable" or "guaranteed"... [JACQUES BARZUN][2]

In Frye (1923) the D.C. Court upheld the exclusion of testimony of the results of a then-new blood-pressure deception test on the grounds that novel scientific testimony "crosses the line between the experi­men­tal and the demonstrable," and so is admissi­ble, only if it is "sufficient­ly established to have gained general acceptance in the particular field to which it belongs."[3]Ignored for a decade, rarely cited for a quarter-century, over time the "Frye test" became increasingly influen­tial, until by the early 1980s it had been adopted by 29 states