'As scientists, you don't accuse each other like this. I want that qualification to be withdrawn.'
Pish-tosh. "Scientists" accuse one another all the time, which is as it should be. If science can't stand up to attacks, then it needs more evidence.
“Scientists” do everything they can to protect their funding. Its bad enough in hard science. But in anthropology, which is barely a science in the first place, it reaches epic proportions.