It's easy and tempting to say things such as 'X is not science' or 'X is cargo cult science'. However, if you take your X to be large enough, like a whole disci

It's easy and tempting to say things such as 'X is not science' or 'X is cargo cult science'. However, if you take your X to be large enough, like a whole discipline such as psychology, or computer science, or archaeology etc., the statement becomes a truism - not useful at best, misleading at worst. Let's take psychology as an example (use computer science in your mind if that's more familiar), it's a vast field spanning the whole spectrum from theoretical to experimental work. You start with something completely unscientific at one end and end up with the essence of the scientific method at the other.