Really?  It&#x27;s like we&#x27;re reading a different article.  The author says several times that, sure, spirals that approximately but predictably implement the golden ratio exist, but so do others.<p>As if that&#x27;s supposed to convince the reader of something.<p>I took this to be the thesis:<p>&gt;  We have noted above that not all spirals in mathematics or in nature are golden spirals. Likewise, spirals can be produced by non-biological processes if the discrete elements which make up the spiral are laid down according to some simple rules. The problem for biologists is to find those rules. Merely asserting that &quot;nature seems to prefer fibonacci numbers&quot; (most of the time, in certain particular cases) isn&#x27;t an explanation.<p>If this is the &quot;flim flam&quot; that&#x27;s being debunked, it&#x27;s blaspheming a religion with no followers.