The author is ignoring the 800-lb gorilla in the room which is the anti-truth, anti-rationality fashions -- modernism and post-modernism -- that have dominated and corrupted philosophy for the past century. The analogy to physical science would make sense only if the mainstream of science since about 1910 was dominated by politics and founded on a premise that whatever makes you feel happy, man, must be what makes the universe go round. In such an environment, it would be entirely reasonable to ignore the modern trash and have your kids read Newton...