Answer

The descriptions are completely acceptable to me, but not the interpretation. The sociology there is correct, but reducing the entire process to sociology is not. There really is normal science in which people are prepared to live with problems. And there really is a threshold of problems that creates a revolution leading to a paradigm shift, and indeed it looks a bit like a political process. But at the end of the day, after everything, it is true that there are mistakes and that we are all human, yet science does progress. That is, there is something in this process beyond sociology. Scientific conservatism, which is not alarmed by problems and does not immediately topple a paradigm during the normal stage, is healthy and correct for genuine reasons as well. It is not just sociology. And for those in the know, graduates of the yeshiva crowd: it is not true that “everything is sociology.”