Reflections of a stormy petrel

"I am of the view that apples have put oranges to rest." My understanding of Kuhn's view is that it is wholly sociological, that is, that it does not give any logical reason why any theory should be better than any other. Popper takes sociological factors into account - in fact, the contemporary insistence on peer review is Popperian - but is based on principles of logic and reason. If we assume that "scientific revolutions" - whatever the Heck those may be, and I do not think there have ever been any - are motivated purely by climates of opinion, then there is no reason why the rise of Nazism in Germany should not be called a scientific revolution. After all, it involves a major paradigm shift.