> Machine learning, as it is practiced today, is not science. There is no scientific theory behind it and there is no scientific method applied. There are no scientific questions asked, or attempted to be answered.

Total horseshit. There are tons of scientific papers on ML published. In fact it is MORE like traditional science than typical CS, because it is trying to reverse engineer how something we encountered in the real world works. We know NNs do amazing things, and we don't fully yet understand how.