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>simplistic models are useful but they're just models.
you fail to understand that ALL of science is "just models"
models are how we describe phenomena we observer. models work within domains of applicability; if you exceed that domain, your model won't be very good. don't shit on something because it's "just a model/theory".

things like lewis structures and oxidation states, when compared to better models, capture some features of the more fundamental models, but they are also essentially cartoons. it's like how you can immediately recognize a cartoon of a person captures important visual features of a person, but scribbles on paper really bear little resemblance to actual people

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I had an argument with a Pakistani chemistry teacher recently about atomic theory. I explained to him my belief that atomic structure as typically…