When someone tries to distinguish their X by saying it is rooted in science, all they really mean is that someone with a grad degree and a lab coat came up with

When someone tries to distinguish their X by saying it is rooted in science, all they really mean is that someone with a grad degree and a lab coat came up with it. That is a pretty limited, and IMO flawed view of what science is. Are they really trying to say that other workouts don't use the scientific method at all? That they don't do anything like formulating and nullifying hypotheses with evidence, without any semblance of control? Is your workout really better because it came out of a university research center? Science isn't peer review. Peer review is merely a filter mechanism to discard bad from good...a filter mechanism that has both false positives and false negatives. We shouldn't conflate peer review with science.