Interesting.

I would say her critique definitely applies to the social sciences. After all, all science is about studying ‘problems’, so to identify something as being worthy of study in the social sciences is to make a value judgement of some kind at the outset. One’s ideology will be evident in that process.

As for the physical sciences, some efforts in it are directly applicable to ‘social problems’ of a physical kind (hunger, disease, etc.), and physical findings in, e.g., evolution and genetics can can impact social theories. Other efforts in the physical sciences can and do raise issues of ethics in their origin or their applications or both.

So there is no denying that specific problems of study in the physical sciences can reflect prior normative judgments or attitudes. Surely, though, as in the example of the “bubble chamber,” there are any number of scientific studies in that don’t involve any normative question of any kind anywhere in the process.

All of which I guess is a long-winded way of saying as a Response, “I agree.”