ye gods, can we come up with a "law" to describe appealing to the halting problem?

Just because there are unanswered questions that doesn't mean we can't have bare minimum codified standards.

Furthermore, standards aren't invalidated just because practitioners disagree with them. Plenty of <insert engineer type>s disagree with the standards body of their respective field, they still follow the standards out of fear of prosecution or simply as a path of least resistance and when those standards are found to be defective, they (generally) evolve.