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Sorry, but you're getting silly now.
Of course no one has suggested that Laland is saying that he (Laland) isn't a valid participant in the field.
To repeat yet again - Laland is complaining that traditionalists are portraying people like him as "extremist", and are trying to suppress scientific debate by "fair means or foul". Behaving as he would have expected politicians to behave, rather than scientists, as he says.
It's not a question of reading anything into those two paragraphs. Laland could scarcely have been more explicit.
Sorry, but you're getting silly now.
Of course no one has suggested that Laland is saying that he (Laland) isn't a valid participant in the field.
To repeat yet again - Laland is complaining that traditionalists are portraying people like him as "extremist", and are trying to suppress scientific debate by "fair means or foul". Behaving as he would have expected politicians to behave, rather than scientists, as he says.
It's not a question of reading anything into those two paragraphs. Laland could scarcely have been more explicit.