I think this might conflate “science” with something like “statistics”. It’s possible to study things like personal experience, just harder at scale.
The Hollywood-scientist example illustrates this, I think. Dr. Physicist finds something that wildly conflicts with her current understanding of the world, and would be hard to put a number on, so she concludes that it can’t and shouldn’t be reasoned about using the scientific method.
I think this might conflate “science” with something like “statistics”. It’s possible to study things like personal experience, just harder at scale.
The Hollywood-scientist example illustrates this, I think. Dr. Physicist finds something that wildly conflicts with her current understanding of the world, and would be hard to put a number on, so she concludes that it can’t and shouldn’t be reasoned about using the scientific method.