Power law religion

Continuing this post, good luck with getting the power law religion, like any religion, to change. It too, like most religion, has to have a universal to rule them all. Proponents even admit it is idealized, that the real world doesn't fit it. It's just barely warmed over, metaphysically dichotomous Gnosticism hiding under the rubric of science and math. From this piece:

“These results undermine the universality of scale-free networks and reveal that real-world networks exhibit a rich structural diversity that will likely require new ideas and mechanisms to explain."

"Supporters of the scale-free viewpoint, many of whom came to network science by way of physics, argue that scale-freeness is intended as an idealized model, not something that precisely captures the behavior of real-world networks."

"Steven Strogatz, a mathematician at Cornell University (and a member of Quanta’s advisory board) […] said, there’s a 'power law religion.'”

"Clauset sees his work with Broido not as an attack but as a call to action to network scientists, to examine a more diverse set of possible mechanisms and degree distributions than they have been doing. 'Perhaps we should consider new ideas, as opposed to trying to force old ideas to fit,' he said."