A very good article, although I think the deeper point that isn't really said explicitly is essentially how scientists (physicists in particular) are often too

A very good article, although I think the deeper point that isn't really said explicitly is essentially how scientists (physicists in particular) are often too fond of their models and forget that they are idealizations of the real world. Whether a system really is isolated (they never are) is a serious contingency scientists often forget, but we can extend this to essentially forgetting the applicability of all hosts of accepted theory. This point of view has been called reductionism by some philosophers, and it has value in some cases but tends to overestimate the complexity of the real world. It's important to remember that all models are approximations.