after its repeated eradication” (p. 53). These claims are similar to the arguments put forth in letters sent to the Science editor by the late Henry Voss (Voss 1992), then Director of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), and the late Steven Saul (Saul 1992), then an entomologist at the University of Hawaii, after my article appeared in 1991. I am disappointed that the “pathways theory” is still being used to account for