[general_re]

You never explained why you thought it was invalid, which is rather what I was attempting to pry out...

[AndrewC]

You never explained why you thought it was invalid,

You missed it.

• I rejected it as a "valid" use of the experimental results.
• Politely, that is the difference between a Darwinian and a non-Darwinian, ontogeny repeating phylogeny as a premise.