So Swartz is unhappy that science has to take one step backwards for every 99 steps taken forward to the progress? And I wonder what alternatives Swartz would

So Swartz is unhappy that science has to take one step backwards for every 99 steps taken forward to the progress? And I wonder what alternatives Swartz would like to provide instead of science? Just so he is aware, we sort of tried astrology, religious doctrines, voodoo Eastern philosophies, but none of them even come close to the knowledge we acquire from physicalist point of view taken with science.