&gt; &quot;Type up a blog post&quot; is not the important part of the scientific method.<p>How do you think all those legitimate scientific journals got started? It&#x27;s natural to think that because science is currently done with a huge amount of rigor that it was always done with a huge amount of rigor. In truth, the author&#x27;s approach is still very scientific.<p>He considered the research he had available to him, reviewed some of the science regarding different lighting technologies, then tried something and observed that it worked. What about that isn&#x27;t scientific?<p>Every scientific pursuit started out as a pseudoscience. Even the most rigorous fields like Physics or Medicine were originally people intuiting about a phenomenon with each other. There&#x27;s nothing unscientific about what the author did, and to me it raises far more interesting questions than a diatribe about a lack of rigor.