Abstract
In short, the charges leveled against us by Wiley et al. (2011) do not stand up to scrutiny. We had no ulterior motive in bringing what we consider to be legitimate concerns to the attention of our research community. We hope that the real issues—asdetailed in our paper (Mooi & Gill 2010)—can now be discussed without further distraction. Wiley et al. (2011) begin their critique of our paper (Mooi & Gill, 2010) with an assertion: "we need to make it clear that the foundation of their arguments rests not on scientific rigor, but rather on opinions about the re-classification of fishes using molecular data.
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