I don't read it that way. They just made the heresy comment.
With this statement, Ah well, why bother to read a book, if the title alone tells you it must be the sort of book you disapprove of on political grounds?(said about his book The Selfish Gene), he accuses them of politics. I have that book right here at the moment, and although their names are not on the first page with comments, I can not say they did not read the book. (I do like this comment by The Oxford Times, "The speculative nature of the treatise will appeal strongly to those who find a special kind of excitement in the original ideas that good science fiction offers.")
And forgive my oversight, thanks for the well wishes.