Ancient literature can predict floods, lumberjack says. My point is, I'm skeptical of a physicists' insight into the psychology of insurgents that would give t

Ancient literature can predict floods, lumberjack says. My point is, I'm skeptical of a physicists' insight into the psychology of insurgents that would give this model any legitimacy in terms of making accurate future predictions, rather than just modeling past data. The former requires a lot more faith.