The difference between physics and virology is that the physical models by-and-large work for practical purposes (nobody uses 'relativity' to design an airplane, for example). Virology seems to be complete garbage.

I'm starting to suspect that Kuhn is no longer valid! Old-school science could be investigated with two hands an a dream. You or I could do old-school spectroscopy or aerodynamics. Modern science is so entangled with totalitarianism that I don't think it can advance 'one funeral at a time...'