Editing Normal science (section)

==The route to normal science==
Kuhn stressed that historically, the route to normal science could be a difficult one.  Prior to the formation of a shared paradigm or research consensus, would-be scientists were reduced to the accumulation of random facts and unverified observations, in the manner recorded by [[Pliny the Elder]] or [[Francis Bacon]],<ref>Kuhn, p. 10-22</ref> while simultaneously beginning the foundations of their field from scratch through a plethora of competing theories.

Arguably at least the [[social sciences]] remain at such a pre-paradigmatic level today.<ref>A. Rosenberg, ''Philosophy of Science'' (2005) p. 149</ref>