Forget "evidence-based" practices: science is a form of thinking, not a collection of represented facts

"Evidence-based" or empirical thinking is pragmatic (it seeks solutions to predefined problems by seeking quantitative support for existing problems). But that is not scientific. Science relies principally on clear concepts and formal models that shed light on situations and enable them to clearly represented. Thus, scientific thinking does not solve problems but invents them. Instead of starting with problems, it elaborates problematics for thinking the character and meaning of situations. Thus, it is the point of view of subjects who are citizens (implicated and defined by the concerns and needs of everyone in the polity) rather than experts who manage people.

Facts are not true pictures of things, but elements of the things that compose imaginary pictures that cannot be shown, yet are invoked to justify the claims that the principal facts mentioned are meant to support.

The idea of ‘facts’ here is empiricist and pragmatic, but it is not scientific. Rather, it is journalistic. Its tacit model is the law court. Practices of social control by managerial professionals are said to be ‘evidence-based’ when the managers are particularly determined to get results. They know what they are looking for. Such is the way of technology, which uses science to attain practical ends. Science is more like the lovers who both knows and does not know what he is looking for. This is called curiosity.