Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

In his later work (from 1990 onward) his focus has shifted somewhat from the natural sciences to the human sciences partly under the influence of the work of Michel Foucault.  
Hacking Ian (May 2012). 1086/354775.

Ian Hacking CC FRSC FBA (born February 18 1936) is a Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science.