Doug -

I think I see the tip of your tongue poking out through a hole in your cheek!   :^)

Me, I'm a simulationist.  I run these large, complex population mobility ABMs in the utmost confidence that I can make the output support whichever claim happens to be the current politically expedient one.

Pragmatism trumps vague Reductionism every time.

My version is:

     "We run these large complex XXX yyyy ZZZs in the utmost confidence that no matter what the results are, the decision makers will claim that they support whatever happens to be the current political expedient one."
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