I don't understand why rigorous science is required to answer a simple question like 'Are you meditating?', as long as someone has provided you with a common-se

I don't understand why rigorous science is required to answer a simple question like 'Are you meditating?', as long as someone has provided you with a common-sense definition. Science hasn't unraveled all the mysteries of consciousness, or ethics, or economics either, but that doesn't force us to remain silent on those topics. You might think that meditation is a bunch of hocus-pocus and isn't real, but science hasn't decided either way.