A reality-based hypothetical is developed and provided to a set of training participants. The reality-based hypothetical is a fact pattern describing an original lawsuit involving a set of real life scientific studies, data, witnesses, and issues that have never been litigated where only the claims, plaintiff, and defendant are fictitious. is a training device for teaching a set of target legal and science objectives, such as determining the scientific integrity of proposed scientific evidence and understanding the scientific evidence as a whole. The "reality-based hypothetical" is developed to provide practice in performing problem solving techniques to determine the "scientific integrity" of proposed scientific evidence and scientific testimony. One or more dialogue sessions are provided to gather information necessary for making a determination on the admissibility of the scientific study. A decision on the admissibility of the scientific study can be rendered during each dialogue session, which occurs at designated segments during the training.