When people talk about “scientific method” on blogs I get the impression they are demanding a simplistic cartoon version of the world in which scientists in a “lab” wearing white coats and shaking chemicals in their “Test Tubes” must adhere to words like Hypothesis -> Test chalked on a blackboard.
Much like computer science graduates will spout nonsense to me about how software development has to follow some ideal cartoon model whether it be some new Agile approach or an older “waterfall model” of software engineering. But in the real world companies don’t do that. They just get on with it and their success is not measured in the methods they use but the results they obtain.