Before revision: The Author Replies: Reviewers have described themselves as skeptics and asserted that Six-Legged Soldiers is “devoid of rigour” or “scarcely scholarly.” What such folks seem to have missed is that I share their doubts (e.g., the US military weaponized yellow fever mosquitoes during the Cold War, I don’t believe that the Americans waged wholesale entomological warfare against North Korea or Cuba).
After revision: Reviewers have described themselves as skeptics and asserted that Six-Legged Soldiers is “devoid of rigour” or “scarcely scholarly.” What such folks seem to have missed is that I share their doubts (e.g., the US military weaponized yellow fever mosquitoes during the Cold War, I don’t believe that the Americans waged wholesale entomological warfare against North Korea or Cuba).