Comment on “Intrinsic Kicks at Birth Are Required to Explain the Observed Properties of Single and Binary Neutron Stars”

We address comments made by van den Heuvel and van Paradijs in discussing our suggestion that the kinematic and space distributions of radio pulsars and low-mass X-ray binaries arise primarily from the recoil to a supernova explosion that is spherically symmetric in the rest frame of the exploding star, whether it is single or in a close binary. We then argue that most of the situations that they claim are irrefutable evidence for the occurrence of an additional "kick" in a supernova explosion can be accounted for in the framework of the "kickless" scenario.