A body must have flesh and bones.
I agree with the gist of Staddon's message, as I agree with Branch's (1992). But, just as "one finds God in the details," there also lurks the devil. Exhortations concerning research methods are about as effective in changing behavior as Sunday sermons. But we finish both feeling improved; and although a good model, either from the laboratory or from life, is more efficacious, talk is cheaper. Here's my two bits.