Physicist: Darwin's theory of evolution supported in part from "calculated fear"

At this stage in his career, and writing a book with widely published common-sense philosopher Jerry Fodor, Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini certianly isn't taking as much of a risk as a young skeptic might whwen he opines in a recent interview with Susan Mazur at Scoop:

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..., even if we take the many, many biologists in many countries who have contributed to the new rich panorama we have today of non-selectionist biological mechanisms (including the masters of the Evo-Devo revolution), they are reluctant, in my opinion, to steer away from natural selection. They declare that the non-selectionist mechanisms they have discovered (and there are many, and very basic) essentially leave the neo-Darwinian paradigm only modified, not subverted.
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But he clearly does not think that way:

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Look, when Sherman stresses that the sea urchin has, in-expressed, the genes for the eyes and for antibodies (genes that are well known and fully active in later species), how can we not agree with him that canonical neo-Darwinism cannot begin to explain such facts?
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Why don't others speak out about the flood tide of bilge fronted in Darwin's name?

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"I think that abandoning Darwinism (or explicitly relegating it where it belongs, in the refinement and tuning of existing forms) sounds anti-scientific. They fear that the tenants of intelligent design and the creationists (people I hate as much as they do) will rejoice and quote them as being on their side. They really fear that, so they are prudent, some in good faith, some for calculated fear of being cast out of the scientific community."
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Presumably, P-P is safe as long as he "hates" design, and the others are safe as long as they keep fronting the bilge, whether "in good faith" or in "calculated fear."

P-P's comments are revealing in the light of stout denials from so many sources that any reason for such fear could possibly exist ....

The book, so far titled What Darwin Got Wrong, comes out in 2009.A Google search didn't turn up another book with this name, though it caught several screeds asserting that Darwin got nothing of importance wrong. I wonder if P-P has insurance against attacks by Darwinbots ... ?