Absolutely. In relation to scientific method, it is not something that you turn on and off as you go through the laboratory door. We do well to alternate bouts of empirical observation and logical reasoning in everything that we do.
Observation is not the same as experimentation. Experimenting requires doing something and then observing the results. Observing what happens in the real world and using that as a basis for out decisions is always a good idea, I agree, but experimenting can do more harm than good.
In science, experimenting is always the best way to reach a decision, since the purpose is simply to gain knowledge. We are not here to learn how to run Wikipedia, we're here to actually run it, which means we have to accept that we can't always learn everything we want to.