Saysme: No. We know that romaine is Chazeres. However, romaine has lots of issues with bugs so the Shailah is whether iceberg is also considered Chazeres.
And speak, your disparaging of Rav Schachter and dismissing his “religion as half science and half Torah” is offensive beyond belief. When you know 1/100th of 1% of the Torah he knows, then maybe you can decide when and if to decide where scientific and historical data can influence our reading of Halachah.
If you don’t know history or context, you can’t even begin to accurately understand Chumash. Or does Chashmal in Yechezkel mean electricity? Of course it doesn’t (well, it can be something similar, but we don’t know). We know that because we know when electricity was invented. This is no different.