When your frenemies get the last word.
(from "Apropos of Nothing in the NYRB https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/07/21/absence-and-nothing-stephen-mumford/ )
My favorite case in the history of biology is Cuvier's eulogy of Lamarck, which you can read 👇
https://victorianweb.org/science/science_texts/cuvier/cuvier_on_lamarck.htm