Politics is definitely not defined as what politicians do and science is, as the GP said, when somone follows the scientific method which is something that happens all the time, far from a Platonic aspiration.
Right. Nice article. Tldr; no, not really, "the scientific method" is rhetoric.
Though i will say that they missed Robert Hooke's essay on the scientific method. I swear no one knows about this (even though Hooke was a founding and seminal member of the English Royal Society) because Hooke sounds insane. Who makes titles like this? I love it:
A scheme, or idea of the present
state of natural philosophy, and how its defects may be remedied by a methodical
proceeding in the making experiments and collecting observations wereby to compile
a natural history, as to the solid basis for the superstructure of philosophy
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-scientific...