It's just a hook (none / 0)
to hang a coat of many colours on. As I said clearly 'if we are to believe....'

If somebody said: "The world is flat" would you say "if we are to believe" etc. ? :-)

If the hook is no good the coat's colours could get dirty on the floor.

Isn't it just part of the wider problem of specialisation in academia and business and pressure for results with little time to see the bigger picture ?

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.