The paper by Alexandro et al on “explaining” the spin of the proton,which is mentioned in my piece, is a jaw-dropping piece of model-building.
Little in particle physics is ever definitively predicted, but rather is usually retrodicted by alarmingly ugly means. The putative Higgs boson was “predicted” to have a mass somewhere between 10^-21 g and 10^-5 g, i.e., somewhere between the mass of a uranium atom and bacterium. Even when the LHC started up and much of that range had been narrowed, predictions still ranged from 100 GeV to 800 GeV. Well, at least they had narrowed it down to the right planet and the right hemisphere, if not the right ballpark.
It is all a Ptolemaic house of cards and it will eventually collapse under its own ungainly weight.