[Rudder]

knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method b : such knowledge or such a system of knowledge concerned with the physical world and its phenomena : NATURAL SCIENCE

If there's a move to redefine science, it certainly has been flying under the radar. The one from the dictionary you cite been the definition for the 40 years I've been a scientist.

[Sopater]

The one from the dictionary you cite been the definition for the 40 years I've been a scientist.

Webster seems to be defining NATURAL SCIENCE as a subset of SCIENCE, notice that the definition of NATURAL SCIENCE takes you to a new definition. Strangely enough, that definition says absolutely nothing about requiring the data to be interpreted within any one philisophical framework. Therefore, why would any scientist want to restrict the framework in which objectively measureable evidence can be interpreted?