It might be useful to hear from the reviewers themselves as to the thought process here. As mentioned above, I don’t really understand why anyone would advise the authors not to publish this. For comparison, I have published several critiques of the research of several Open Phil-funded EA orgs while working at an open phil-funded EA org. In my experience, I think if the arguments are good, it doesn’t really matter if you disagree with something Open Phil funds. Perhaps that is not true in this domain for some reason?
It might be useful to hear from the reviewers themselves as to the thought process here. As mentioned above, I don’t really understand why anyone would advise the authors not to publish this. For comparison, I have published several critiques of the research of several Open Phil-funded EA orgs while working at an open phil-funded EA org. In my experience, I think if the arguments are good, it doesn’t really matter if you disagree with something Open Phil funds. Perhaps that is not true in this domain for some reason?