I was expecting him to write like the posts here..ie. about rationality etc, but you make a good point. consequentially I was browsing the archives a while ago and found this, now it is three ears old, but form the comments of Barkley_Rosser-mainly- it appears Gould didn't exactly "[undo] the last thirty years of progress in his depiction of the field he was criticizing"

not that I want to revive that old thread.