Anthropogenic Global Climate Change is no more than a theory, say neoliberals everywhere.
Peak Oil is no more than a theory, too.
What is wrong with something being "a theory"? We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
Usefulness to one's vision of the world...that's the problem they have with the word "theory"...
And then there are the radical who use this lack of usefulness to attack it for purely "projective" reason (I will be more powerfull, I will be more high in the hierarchy,...)
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude