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As a consumer of carefully-tuned journalism offerings, it’s useful to know that magazine titles are generally selected without the approval of the author and often without full consideration of the content. The title should be taken with a significant g̵r̵a̵i̵n̵ ̵o̵f̵ ̵s̵a̵l̵t̵ dash of unami.

The article itself uses the word “science” only once: it concludes with “[…] there’s no science behind the secret sauce.”

This article is mainly about the science of convincing the client on updating their menu, the tactical "telling the client what they just told you" strategy doesn't work in this field.

Should it be called "alchemy"?

We've switched the title to the subtitle, which contains no science.

Maybe that's what “weird science” means?

looks like science to me, only without p-values and peer reviewed papers.

Next you'll have people claiming vaccines cause autism and global warming isn't real and you'll have to believe them because "it's just a combination of knowledge, experience, analysis and 'see what happens'".