Have you read Sir Arthur Eddington's books?

Do you know the example where he describes a test question in physics, starting with "A two ton elephant slides down a hill?"

The first step, he says, which any good student of science should know, is you eliminate the phenomena - the elephant and the hill - and replace them with numbers.

Science doesn't even deal with phenomena. For some reason, this is not as obvious with people who do research in the physical and even biological sciences but a psychological researcher, it's painfully evident that by the time you've set up your methodology and statistical processes, you've left the phenomena far beyond.

So to say science has "Reduced' phenomena - it only does that by ignoring them.

If you eliminated human perception and simply started with the numbers you end up with when you start your research, science couldn't even tell us that any phenomena exist.

And you'd never get to the actual phenomena from the numbers.

What science has done is looked at a sliver of behavior of observed phenomena (which we only know in consciousness - which is not solipsism because it is not necessarily individualized consciousness) and come up with a few formula to manipulate the appearances.

Which is wonderful, magical, genius, but no more than that.