In 1972, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, better known in contemporary circles as the Mephistopheles of Poontang, took over the franchise on the Unity of the Sciences movement. The latter, a cult operation as evil as Moon’s, but more intellectually damaging, was founded in the mid-1930s under leadership of John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, and Otto Neurath of the Vienna Circle of logical positivists. In the 1950s, it merged with Robert M. Hutchins’s University of Chicago publishing operations to become the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was one of its more successful ventures....