That does not make sense to me. AS far as i know, both the standard model and the higgs boson are proven. Why would you caveat that predictions cannot be made,

That does not make sense to me. AS far as i know, both the standard model and the higgs boson are proven. Why would you caveat that predictions cannot be made, by taking out the Higgs Boson ? The analogy to what Russ Robers is making, is equivalent to her saying: "take radioactivity out of chemistry" "AHA! Now since atoms can't decay, then you cannot get certain elements, so now i can conclude that the periodic table is crap! it can't make predictions about atom size!" Why ?