Two points: - What he describes in the abstract is nothing new. Part of your work as an applied mathematician is to take mathematical models developed by other

Two points: - What he describes in the abstract is nothing new. Part of your work as an applied mathematician is to take mathematical models developed by others, e.g, in the form of systems of differential equations, and treat them as absolute truths (for the sake of computation; essentially you create "a mathematical bubble" for yourself and choose to live in it), study the consequences, and present the results. So his claim of "I advocate" is disgusting plagiarism/credit-snatching of a well-known technique. - What he actually advocated is total bullshit as far as physics is concerned. You can live as long as you want in the bubble of your mathematical models. But if you have to connect your math to reality, you have to make your math subordinate to empirical data, and if the data disagrees, your shiny mathematical model is wrong, period. Also don't forget what George Box said "All models are wrong. But some are useful".