I do think, though, that it is a worthy war that academics are fighting: to find the true explanation to these phenomenon. Maybe there are many, then at least we are having people who deep dive into the empirical evidences as much as testing their theories on them. Who knows if it's going to get us to enlightenment, but any progress is progress. To know that 1 thing doesn't work is also to check it off the list of theories and potential answers for the problems/questions that we have.