Oh sure. When there's a plausible reason for thinking something is scale-free, I'm all for it. For a while though, it was en vogue to find power law distributi

Oh sure. When there's a plausible reason for thinking something is scale-free, I'm all for it. For a while though, it was en vogue to find power law distributions in all sorts of weird places (email response times, numbers of friends), and that's what I was attempting to object to!