[spunkets]

"Nobody uses the theory in real life. It has no value."

Of course, it's like astronomy. Why bother with attempting to know and understand the world.

[weegee]

Astronomy was more important when it was used by societies everywhere to tell the passage of seasonal time and for navigation.

[thulldud]

"Real life" in this context means pharmaceutical research, or didn't you notice?

People do use the theory in other things, most notably politics (which is what the article is about), but that has never had much to do with reality.