I should have been more clear. The comment I replied to seemed to make the following reasoning: "a lot of junk science uses oversimplified models; this work al

I should have been more clear. The comment I replied to seemed to make the following reasoning: "a lot of junk science uses oversimplified models; this work also uses an oversimplified model; therefore, this work is also junk science". And my intention was to point out that this kind of reasoning is invalid, because simplification is an important aspect of the scientific process.