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Anyone that uses the term "just a theory" as a way to downplay some kind of scientific statement is showing their ignorance.
I will take one small issue with one of the things they mentioned in the article. They stated that a theory is the pinnacle. Well that isn't exactly accurate because a scientific Law is one step above that.
Laws aren't better than theories; they are generally statements about a narrow range of phenomena which can be expressed mathematically while a theory covers a wide range of phenomena. For example, theory explains the origin of all conservation laws in physics as being the result of symmetry. Each law covers a specific thing (i.e. conservation of momentum) while the theory covers all conserved quantities.