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It looked to me like the entire original post was about how you couldn't use lower level laws to extrapolate higher level laws. Renormalization is the only way I know of to do this. Additionally, every comment in this direct thread is about renormalization. I think renormalization is the topic.
Renormalization is a very specific technique, mostly used in HEP, to work around the infinities cropping up into the calculations. It does not let you predict anything about a lower-energy model from the higher-energy one, only to replace "bare" quantities with the renormalized ones.