[ineedasername]

No, really, it is not. In your own example you're already jumping to testing a hypothesis. "Scientific method" isn't just a vague phrase, there literally is a specific method of steps to go through.

The first step is Observation. Sometimes split out into Observation, then Research.

Then comes the formulation of a hypothesis.

After that is constructing a way to test the hypothesis. Not to prove it wrong, not to prove it right, but to test it.

There's more after that, it's an iterative process and a single test of a hypothesis isn't always definitive, often it is not. But "Prove me wrong" is not the starting point.