Science and seance

Interestingly I recently mistakenly thought that the two words science and seance share a common ancestor. I was wrong. While one begins with sitting the other referred to knowledge that can be shared. Sitting however makes one think of zen and science perhaps matches dharma (the body of knowledge in Buddhism.) Science has been illuminating our world since the Antiquity and long before science was coined as a word.
However initial science in the early 19th century was mostly to the public a show - a seance.

Leaning against the method

Lakatos is dead. Long live the idea that there is a scientific method.
A reason why Feyerabend might be wrong lies in the possibility that as well as the scientific body of knowledge developing so does the scientific method itself so even if one attempts a monist understanding of the method one fails as soon as the scientific method is improved on. That will certainly look like there is no pattern but from new paradigms one can view the world better. Emerald glasses perhaps?
Yet the use of the free spirit and the attitude of anything goes is vital for progress. Suddenly much of the absurdity goes away.
The reason where Feyerabend is right however is his brilliant insight and way of a retelling of the old archetypal story of escaping the old route trodden ad nauseum, the method - to make way for an advance, to see the light that shines everything in a new light - a simple principle.