Point taken about the nuances. I did run science and engineering together in the article because I was talking at a very general level. Both theoretical and experimental science work with engineering and even with capitalism, though, in the larger progressive project of secular humanism. We shouldn't lose sight of the forest for the trees.

Judging from your comment, I take it that as a scientist, you wouldn't say philosophy is just a nuisance. You seem to suggest that some scientists ignore philosophy to their detriment. This is certainly true in mainstream economics, which I argue has become more propagandistic than scientific.