The true scientific significance of a group of unusual fossils discovered by the paleontologist Charles Walcott is more likely to be reflected in a recent classification than it was in Walcott' s own classification. Walcott was, after all, a prominent member of the scientific establishment. His classifications are thus unlikely to have done anything but confirm what established science had already taken to be true.
It is claimed that a questionable technique used in the argument is analyzing the past on the basis of social and political categories that properly apply only to the present and using the results of this analysis to support its conclusion.