I don't think that's what is being proposed. Philosophy is not bad science. But you can't always know which questions to ask with science, especially in a new f

I don't think that's what is being proposed. Philosophy is not bad science. But you can't always know which questions to ask with science, especially in a new field. One of the things which philosophy does (and has done) is to clarify which questions to ask, how to ask them, and so forth. Once the problem domain is clarified enough, science can step in and start being useful. Of course, there is no clear-cut border between the two (which can be seen historically in the development of physics, biology, etc.) That's definitely not the only thing which philosophy does, but I think that's the idea being discussed here.