Why Does Science Suck At Philosophy?

By Leo Gura - December 30, 2025

Notice something. Every scientist is a terrible, miserable philosopher. Why?

Why does science suck so much at epistemology and ontology? Because they never took it seriously. They just assumed is wasn’t necessary for good science. Which is obviously false. You can’t be good at anything you don’t take seriously. Science as an institution, as a culture, has never taken epistemology and ontology seriously. Why not? Because these fields cannot be objectified. Epistemology and ontology is inherently 1st-person, subjective, experiential. If you took epistemology and ontology seriously, you would have such an existential crisis that you could not do science. You would be paralyzed by not-knowing, self-doubt, uncertainty, and inaction. Professional science cannot stomach this. Science is horny for results, solutions, answers, technology. So science just makes shit up, science invents the answers it wants, and in this way corrupts itself. The very foundation of science, its very first step on the path to truth is already self-deception and bias. Science does not contend with serious not-knowing. Science is a teenager who is too horny to fuck to sit down and do his homework and meditate. Nothing science does can ever overcome this fundamental mistake. While all the scientists were out there fucking, I was sitting alone in a room contemplating epistemology for 20 years. Which is why I realized God and they didn’t.

By the way, do you know why Albert Einstein became the world’s greatest scientist? Because in his youth, before he started doing science, he read a book about epistemology. That book impressed him so much that he took epistemology so seriously that it allowed him to question the scientific dogmas of his day and invent General Relativity. But today’s scientists are so stupid that they don’t understand that this is what Einstein did. The lesson is right there, yet nobody learns it. If you understood this lesson you would quit your science for ten years just to master epistemology. Then you could return to science, if you still even cared about it. But survival has you by the balls and you’re too irresponsible to do that. Hence science is as corrupt as it is. All the corruption of science is just the scientist’s unwillingness to take epistemology seriously. That’s what happens when you put the cart before the horse. There is a proper order of operations here: first epistemology, then ontology, then self-mastery, last science. If you skip the first three steps the Devil will fuck you in the ass.

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