No, it&#x27;s a critical part of determining fact from fiction. This article is absurd.<p>&gt; It is not the job of theory to verbally reproduce the complexity of the world.<p>Yes, <i>it is</i>. That&#x27;s what a theory is -- a verbal&#x2F;symbolic model meant to account for the complexity of the world. I think this guy just doesn&#x27;t like rigor and would rather apply blanket statements about the world without having to back them up with actual data.