Status of the Pioneer Anomaly

Paul ten Boom (arXiv:1307.0537[physics.gen-ph]) suggested the recent publications of the thermal recoil force causing the Pioneer Anomaly (PA) are questionable, suggested a non-sytematic effect is unlikely, and concluded the PA should remain an open issue. Paul ten Boom noted John D. Anderson in a recent interview argued ``\textellipsis that the new analysis has mis--modelled the solar radiation pressure.'' After many years, \textit{only one} model presented to date is consistent with \textit{all} 12 characteristics of the Pioneer Anomaly (Hodge arXiv:0612567v1[astro-ph]) and has predicted later observations (Hodge 2013. IntellectualArchive, 2, 3, p. 1). This proposed model supports a reductive philosophy that no other suggested model does because the model describes the Pound-Rebka experiment and the galaxy redshift of cosmology (Hodge 2006. New Astron., 11, 5, P. 344). Paul ten Boom did not discuss this model. As Paul ten Boom stated ``\textellipsis but ultimately, hard won observational evidence should be a physicist's first priority.'' The PA is a case where conservatism should yield to observation and to a reductive model that explains the observation such as the Hodge model. (http://web.comporium.net/\textasciitilde scjh/ )