Experimental Reason, Fact, Artifaction

Whitehead's comment, that experimentation entails "cooking the facts", is unworthy of a book titled 'Adventures of Ideas', from one of the few philosophers for whom Creativity is a fundamental principle.  By implication, the comment is groundlessly dismissive of Constructivist Epistemology, according to which, a 'fact', by definition, is 'cooked'.  More generally, he fails to appreciate that experimentation is not an isolated anomalous practice.  For, all human artifaction, e. g. any transformation of raw materials for manufacturing purposes, constitutes a 'cooking of the facts'.  In other words, Whitehead seems to not appreciate the epochal significance in human history of the ascendancy of Experimental Reason--the era of rapid and pervasive technological advances.