Feyerabend was critical of the scientific method and claimed in his book "Against method" that "anything goes". If I understood correctly he meant that there is no single scientific method,but he does not specify common components of every scientific method either,thus concluding that "anything goes". Are the following observations evidence that Feyerabend is wrong?

-The replication crisis demonstrated that a huge amount of finding in the social as well as natural sciences cannot be replicated. Isn't the solution to the replication crisis more stringent statistical methodology?

-Also Feyerabend never specified common elements of scientific methodologies such as observation, forming of hypothesis or data analysis which enabled the majority of scientific discoveries. There are common elements to all scientific methods, contrary to Feyerabend.

-One might find suitable theories through mathematical manipulation of existing theories. However these theories will be tested against the physical world, thus although one might argue to have found truth before testing, we cannot know if these theories really hold up to reality before testing them.

-Non-mathematical theorizing can discover "trivial" workings of reality. However this seems only to work for low hanging fruits and usually does involve at least observation of the physical world plus a lot of undocumented reasoning.

Feyerabend was critical of the scientific method and claimed in his book "Against method" that "anything goes". If I understood correctly he meant that there is no single scientific method,but he does not specify common components of every scientific method either,thus concluding that "anything goes". Are the following observations evidence that Feyerabend is wrong?

• The replication crisis demonstrated that a huge amount of finding in the social as well as natural sciences cannot be replicated. Isn't the solution to the replication crisis more stringent statistical methodology?

• Also Feyerabend never specified common elements of scientific methodologies such as observation, forming of hypothesis or data analysis which enabled the majority of scientific discoveries. There are common elements to all scientific methods, contrary to Feyerabend.

• One might find suitable theories through mathematical manipulation of existing theories. However these theories will be tested against the physical world, thus although one might argue to have found truth before testing, we cannot know if these theories really hold up to reality before testing them.

• Non-mathematical theorizing can discover "trivial" workings of reality. However this seems only to work for low hanging fruits and usually does involve at least observation of the physical world plus a lot of undocumented reasoning.