Models can disarm invalidation by restating what everyone already knows

Evidence

Tilly, too, has increasingly complicated his theoretical model, as well as swallowed up inconvenient data by reinterpretations. A still greater difficulty that emerges in his work, and also disarms invalidation, is a kind of clever triviality (in the philosophic sense). Something seems to be said to explain a mystifying set of events. But except for labels (members, challengers, et cetera) we know it already, and so remain mystified. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4378