I don't think that's true at all, and it makes the rest of your argument a lot weaker.
What he has said is "if someone goes to the trouble of doing the math, at least take a look at it!" because there are a bunch of people who haven't bothered to refute the math in the slightest, but who are demanding retraction nonetheless. I don't think that position is entirely unreasonable, either.
Looking around the rebuttals[0][1][2] seem pretty non-exceptional. From the looks of it nobody's claiming Wilson's math is incorrect on a technical level, but that it's wrong on a conceptual level. Taleb's mathematical audit may have preemptively refuted a claim nobody was even making.
If Wilson et al. have a better tool it's on them to demonstrate it. Nobody needs to check the math, they just state their better predictions and the community examines them. Sometimes the claimed mathematical tools aren't even as good as the current ones, and then the correctness of the math is moot. FWICT, the biologists are saying they already have better tools and they're declining the offer to downgrade.
[0] - http://news.sciencemag.org/2011/03/researchers-challenge-e.-... [1] - https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/a-misgui... [2] - http://www.evolutionnews.org/2011/05/eo_wilson_disavows_his_... [mathy rebuttal] - http://kinselections.blogspot.com/2013/12/nowak-and-wilson-a...
In a lot of science there are right and wrong answers and the math (and experiments) make it obvious which is which. Here it seems to be a lot more opinions rather than facts.