The radical subjectivists are, I think, right about the subjectivity of science. But they cannot be right in their further claim, that there is nothing whatsoever to distinguish science from ordinary thought or philosophical contemplation. That would explain everything about the messy human business of scientific inquiry except what matters most: the great wave of progress that followed the Scientific Revolution. Medical progress, technological progress, and progress in understanding how it all hangs together, how everything works. Immense, undeniable, life-changing progress.
