If not, then what you have expressed here is simply a hypothesis, which of course is perfectly acceptable in science because it is one of the steps in the scientific method, but hypotheses need to be
verified by experimentation.
This is different from, say, structural analysis, where finite element models can be
verified by experimentation.
Not exact matches
In the following, it has to be
verified by animal
experimentation whether the observed effects can also occur in humans.