> and there's evidence they're largely disdainful of it Maybe it's an immune reaction. Scientists need to ask and answer to philosophical questions, to know w

> and there's evidence they're largely disdainful of it Maybe it's an immune reaction. Scientists need to ask and answer to philosophical questions, to know where to search, but they also need to be ready to easily dismiss their philosophical theories to not spend too much time searching in a region with no solutions. So this necessity of assigning low value to their own philosophical theories, may be causing them to assign low value to the whole field.