I'd largely agree if you'd said the failure of producing any alternative aside from nihilistic dogma. The philosophers of science who have helped scientists hone their attention towards how to use evidence to refine ideas, and how to do better at making sure dubious assumptions do not avoid scrutiny, neither produced nihilistic dogma nor was it a failure.

Philosophy certainly isn't accumulating a vast body of fairly reliable knowledge at anything like the pace that science is, though (even if you normalize for hours spent).