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She's wrong though, everything following the scientific method is science. The fact that you didn't pay out of your ass to publicize your research doesn't matter. Of course it reaches less people, but that's a separate issue.
Does it require independent peer review though? How do you achieve that ~~with~~ without publication? The predatory publication system is a different point.
Edit: fix without
Wouldn't this imply that science didn't exist before academic publication existed? Was zero science conducted before the ~1600s then?
I mean, yes. The framework of studying things that we understand as science did not always exist.
Every time someone thinks science and studying natural phenomena are the same thing Newton sheds a single tear from his non-poked eye.