It’s a response because I am explaining how I think this works; most (but not all!) people are updating on the consensus opinion about what’s high status, and then of the remainder some are rationally lying, and there are some small number of people in the field who are both rational and honest.
How is this a response to my point, that you can apparently be a virologist who has worked with Daszak and still publicly disagree with him?
It’s a response because I am explaining how I think this works; most (but not all!) people are updating on the consensus opinion about what’s high status, and then of the remainder some are rationally lying, and there are some small number of people in the field who are both rational and honest.