Some people are picky about this, but in many languages the main science-like word is way more uncontroversially broad. German Wissenschaft covers a whole rang

Some people are picky about this, but in many languages the main science-like word is way more uncontroversially broad. German Wissenschaft covers a whole range of scholarship from physics to humanities and there's no competition for who gets to call their field a Wissenschaft, because mostly anything pursied in academia is considered one. In the Anglo world "Science" seems to be a badge of honor, a title to earn and it leads to cargo culting and physics envy and mock quantitative analysis just for the show. It's better to make specific criticisms about particular methods in the particular contexts, rather than fight over semantics and definitions of words. "This isn't science" is a lazy and uninformative critique. Better is: this and this quantitative analysis or structured approach would better help us uncover the truths behind this topic.