Actually, there's an argument in this article too, but it's philosophical rather than scientific. (More precisely, scientists engage in explanation rather than in argument.) The question is just about the role of convenient, humanistic simplification in conceptualizing and modelling things.

I expand on that argument here, among other places:

https://medium.com/original-philosophy/how-understanding-the-facts-makes-all-knowledge-partly-subjective-bda98e29f990?sk=387e9e50b01927fbaae66014e5ed731a