Seems a nonsense to me given the background of Fisher/Yates & Rothamsted (which framed my early career) but was it not Hacking’s analysis of how ABH applied it in Health which led to the statement and I thought you then developed. But you must know all that so something deeper in your question?

I have no stake in the Royal Society but seems like EM is destroying science structures all over the place and there is a risk of the internal RoySoc meeting being a way of helping him achieve his ends rather than coming together to support science.

It is the Scotland comparison which is particularly interesting (says a Scot). What happens if you take out North Sea oil?