Within the culture as a whole, natural science has been so successful that the word scientific is used in (i)____________ manner; it is often assumed that to call something "scientific" is to imply that its reliability has been (ii)____________ by research whose results cannot reasonably be (iii)____________. A. an ironic B. maligned C. disputed D. an honorific E. challenged F. anticipated G. a literal H. established I. exaggerated