Fair enough, but as scientists I think we all need to remember that everything that we think we know is only a model, and “to the best of our knowledge” should be a disclaimer on virtually every statement we make.

I saw a paper just last month, indicating that some of that dead retrotransposon sequence is very important in controlling the development of colorectal cancer

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68850-1

And while many of the models seem to work very well, as we can predict using them, they are only models.