One particular article written by Scott, titled "The Igorot Defense of Northern Luzon" first published in May 1970, was often tagged by the dictatorship's Military forces as "subversive," although it was actually about incidents which took place from 1576 to 1896, the Spanish colonial era. It was even cited as "subversive material" during the trial of Father Jeremias Aquino. Of this common error by the Military, Scott remarked: "Since nobody who ever read the article could find it subversive, one doesn't know whether to laugh or cry."