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Scientific statement the more complicated (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

theorem

'scientific statement' is the definition.
(a theorem is a proven statement or proposition)

'the more complicated' is the wordplay.
'complicated' is an anagram indicator (a complex or confusing ordering of the letters).
'more' is an anagram of 'orem'.
'the'+'orem'='THEOREM'

(Other definitions for theorem that I've seen before include "speculation" , "Demonstrable proposition" , "Deduced formula" , "The more it changed to a proposition to be proved" , "this has been established" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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