Richard Feynman — 'Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.' Well, this blogpost shows where this analogy breaks down

Richard Feynman — 'Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.' Well, this blogpost shows where this analogy breaks down : birds (AFAWK) don't try to discuss ornithology. "bureaucrats running the asylum" is normal science ! Thomas Kuhn has shown how it works in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions : https://samzdat.com/2018/05/19/science-under-high-modernism/ https://samzdat.com/2018/05/19/science-under-high-modernism/ The problem is that without Kuhn our expectation are set by pop history of science, which only remembers 'anormal', extraordinary science : the paradigm changes. (Otherwise, this is a great blogpost.)