That last sentence is really well-put. Science is a method. My wife is an actual scientist (biologist doing things with antibodies that I like 60% understand),

That last sentence is really well-put. Science is a method. My wife is an actual scientist (biologist doing things with antibodies that I like 60% understand), and when I described A/B testing stuff on ecommerce sites to try and improve conversion rates, her response was something like "Oh, wow, so you're also doing science." And hey, as someone who was a psych major I can say that psychology is a much more difficult science than either my wife's work or me trying to improve conversion rates, but that's just because it's dealing with things that are harder to measure than changes in conversion rates or the bindings of antibodies to targets. As long as you're correctly applying the scientific method to it, you're doing science.