Well, yes and no.

I'll refer specifically to Zen.

What do you mean by "meditation?" Some Zen teachers point out, if by "meditation" you mean forceful concentration, then Zen is not a meditation tradition.

If by "meditation" you mean open awareness, with no agenda, that's Shikan-Taza, a basic form of Zen practice.

But Yasutani Roshi (Philip Kapleau's teacher; he was the author of "Three Pillars of Zen") commonly recommended breath watching and breath counting to "city folk" who had no interest in awakening.

This is so often the challenge of writing about "meditation" - it can mean a million things. That's why I prefer to talk about attention.

One can intentionally "train" attention in a variety of ways. And science shows that training attention can have rather dramatic effects in terms of reducing anxiety, depression, physical pain; increasing self awareness, empathy, compassion, and much more.

Now, if by "meditation" one is talking about stepping back into the vast space of awareness beyond our ordinary identity, by which one's entire ring is transformed and one sees the world as a living sphere of Consciousness, well, not only is science utterly unequipped to deal with any of that, I would wager that the vast majority of people who "say" they meditate maintain a belief in scientifically-based dogma regarding mateiralism.......ok, i won't go further into that.

Just a friendly note to say, it can be helpful sometimes to think of "meditation" in terms of attention. See Les Fehmi's "Open Focus Brain" for more.