I can't say I agree - although I understand your dislike (vehement as it may be) towards the terminology. Science is archaically defined as knowledge of any kind. In modernity it is regarded as a 'systematically organized body of knowledge on a particular subject'. Criminology, psychology, these are all prime examples…

Well, it’s no different than the title “software engineer” being a complete insult to actual engineers. However, the Silicon Valley hype machine will have its way… <sigh>

I can sympathize with this criticism to some extent; as a mathematician and scientist, it's where I tend to go on the few occasions I've found myself in a room with self-proclaimed data scientists. But it's arrogant and often unfair. If they're developing new models (implicit hypotheses) and validating them in a…