It's science, but not scientific method. The two are related but different. It's an observation that is rigorously recorded, but not an experiment. Science is f

It's science, but not scientific method. The two are related but different. It's an observation that is rigorously recorded, but not an experiment. Science is full of this stuff - look at the field of taxonomy, for example. The idea that only those concepts which have been experimentally tested against the null hypothesis can be labelled 'science' goes against both reason and the spirit of the term.