Bruce Alberts, current President of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences, agrees. You don't have a scientific lie, and you cannot lie scientifically.
Science is basically the search of truth.
For most people, the opposite of science is myth. A myth is a story that may fulfill a subjective need, or reveal something profound about the human psyche, but as commonly used it is not an account of objective reality. Of course, science has mythical elements, because all human enterprises do. But scientists are right to wince when their pronouncements are called myths, because their goal as scientists is to minimize subjective story-telling and maximize objective truth. Truth-seeking is not only noble, but also enormously useful.