This is a very wrong-headed article. The author seems to think that science should be able to get the right answers on the first try, and that if we can't, it's somehow a failure of science and any attempts at understanding should be abandoned.

I think he has a basic misunderstanding of science. He doesn't realize that "made up stories" to explain how things work are just a starting point to understanding. They have to be tested and revised and re-tested until we come up with an explanation that reliably predicts how something works. And failures are an integral part of the process. Failures advance understanding.

It reminds me of the quote by Thomas Edison, after a thousand failed experiments, "We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb".