“…Smith had fired Fitch as an associate editor, allegedly for criticizing Smith's decisions, but actually Sokal's ally Fitch had insubordinately been trying to set up his own reply policy to favour Rohlf and Sokal (; see below). And now Smith had purportedly said “in front of witnesses” that he would not publish anti‐cladists’ papers, but in fact he had already published several (Bottjer, ; Colless, ; Janowitz, ; McGinley and Michener, ; Rohlf and Sokal, ; Sokal and Braumann, ), and more were in press at the time of the council meeting (Bird et al., ; Colless, ; Corben, ; Post and Uzell, ; Sokal and Rohlf, ).…”