I think we have a fundamental disagreement on what counts as science, and that’s okay.

Your methodology seems to imply a valid scientific experiment must be sufficiently rigorous as to improve on the current scientific consensus. And I do partially agree, it’s a waste of time collecting data that’s just going to be worse than previously collected, more controlled experiments.

By my philosophy is a lot looser. To quote Adam Savage: “The only difference between screwing around and science, is writing it down”