e settled paradigm or tradition, but rather features multiple competing, contrasting, and often non-interacting modes of enquiry, active reflection upon fundamental assumptions happens more frequently. Probably not frequently enough though.
 Indeed, Sam Harris’s own modest publication shows just such an engagement.
 For example, by the appearance an anomaly in the course of research that needs to be investigated and theorised.
 For example, enquiries into gender or welfare or climate change that are driven by political or moral concerns related to society as a broader whole, but are still conducted ‘scientifically’ rather than, say, polemically.