You skipped the following sentence in your quote: "Other researchers consider it a protoscience, or trans-science system instead." Early thought systems evolve

You skipped the following sentence in your quote: "Other researchers consider it a protoscience, or trans-science system instead." Early thought systems evolved from hundreds of generations of folk wisdom. There are significant enough gaps in modern scientific understanding that to discount these systems is foolish. Note that the current discussion is set in such a gap.