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TLDR of anarchist (Feyerabend) philosophy of science as opposed to “scientific method”. If you think of science as a method, you’re more likely to build a bureaucracy of science than do science. Science is peculiarly vulnerable to turpentine effects.
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I am utterly unpersuaded that there is any sense in which a “turpentine effect,” if it even exists, is a bad thing in regard to any scientific field. eg, building LIGO is as much a scientific achievement as any analysis of its results
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Ah I see your confusion. LIGO is great, it’s an instrument for measuring gravity. It’s instuments for measuring the ‘scientific method’ itself (eg journal impact factors, citations...) that I see as turpentine effects. The bureaucracy of institutional science.
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Ah. But most working scientists would rather talk about *anything* but those, if only they didn’t have to deal with tenure committees and funding agencies — ie, interfaces to the world outside science.