They should say "the genius scientist Daphne succeeded in creating an artificial dragon."

There's no scientific proof.

That's true. There's no scientific evidence for it.

Experiments on fate are non-reproducible and unscientific, but to declare that fate does not exist would also be unscientific.

Well, the Ministry of Education is procrastinating.

Science has yet to prove a causal relationship between genetics and Crime Coefficients.

This can be proven scientifically.

to conduct scientific research on psychic powers.

And you'd bloody lose, you idiot. Mass mobilization, inciting peasants to take up their scythes, straighten them - where's the art in that? Much harder to build a strong state with healthy commerce, manufacturing, solid alliances, progressive science, and fair, independent courts that hand down just judgments.