When you get a more complex blank to fill, the normal thing to do is to improve all of your blank-filling models to adapt for it. There's nothing wrong with th

When you get a more complex blank to fill, the normal thing to do is to improve all of your blank-filling models to adapt for it. There's nothing wrong with that part. I do have a problem with the single-minded insistence on disqualifying any exploratory study on alternatives to a model that gets more and more partially falsified all the time¹. To the point that only iffy personalities that don't care for their careers decide to work on them. But on a situation like this, those other models would probably be tweaked too. 1 - I've never noticed it before, but that phrase gives me great "Superstring Theory" vibes.