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Systematic execution of the old guard doesn't count as scientific progress? Hmm, or does it?
Someone is trying to set up a strawman. Kuhn didn't advocate violent overthrow of the scientific establishment - he simply noted that generational change was an under-appreciated part of the change of scientific orthodoxy.
Someone is just trying to make a joke.
The prose wasn't quite as good as the joke's intent, so part of the effect was lost. Still, it made me smile, FWIW :P