You have to be careful here. Not everyone is careful about terminology. The best you can say is that sloppy writing does not alter reality.
You are quite correct. I should have said - I haven't noticed anyone calling the ToE a law in this thread.
I am surprised that Watson conflates law and theory in his story as if they were different degrees of the same thing. It did appear that he was trying to remove the ToE from the hole of the common usage definition of theory, but I think he went about it the wrong way.