evolutionary progress may well have been made in that manner
actual scientific progress requires a smidge more rigor imo.
if in y’all don’t know WTF is in the soup you’re huffing, we done got no clue if that was what killed your ass or not.
we could repeat the huffing of said/dead soup, which might then count as science. so long as someone jotted down who huffed what and when, and how long it took till they dropped dead.
EDIT: see The future of synthetic cannabinoids