 The editorial continues, stipulating that “Phylogenetic data sets submitted to this journal should be analysed using parsimony”. If trees generated by alternative methods show different results, these may be included if authors prefer those topologies, but only if authors are “prepared to defend it on philosophical grounds” (all quotes from Editors 2016: 1). The editors, here, are using the imprimatur of the journal Cladistics to stake out a specific sense of how “cladistics” ought to be understood, and what calling oneself a “Cladist” signals about the underlying theoretical and philosophical commitments held about phylogenetic inference, i.e., an exclusive commitment to parsimony methods—going so far as to reject model-based statistical approaches entirely.