A methodology is only scientific when it works.
"A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis"
Melvin Powers
I believe that so long as the end result is achieved, the methodology was scientific for that individual's needs.
"A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis"
Melvin Powers
This is not to say that instrumentalism is merely a methodology or an epistemology preliminary to more ultimate philosophic or metaphysical inquiries, for it involves the doctrine that the origin, structure, and purpose of knowing are such as to render nugatory any wholesale inquiries into the nature of Being."
"John Dewey's logical theory"
Delton Thomas Howard