If you could demonstrate it worked, that's an experiment. If most people agree the experiment is testing for the right thing, that's peer review. If a bunch of

If you could demonstrate it worked, that's an experiment. If most people agree the experiment is testing for the right thing, that's peer review. If a bunch of people all conduct the experiment, get the same result, and come to the same conclusion, that's science. If it's speculation, it's not science. So either you're saying the majority of people who have conducted this experiment did it wrong, or that the methodology used by companies is testing for the wrong thing but just happens to be profitable. Given how low tech and quick the experiment is, and thus how widespread the testing has been for over a century, the latter is the most likely case.