>empircists actually think that truth and objectivity can be unquestionably concluded by following a set of instructions that they (mistakenly) believe is infallible

I shouldn't have to say this, but obviously I'm not blind to fact that the scientific method has proved to be an extremely helpful tool in innovation. I'm just tired of how arrogant a lot of empiricists have generally proven to be. Te automatic assumption that they possess the intellectual high ground strikes me as kind of childish