Lysenkoism: My Personal Experience
by Ching-Chee Chan, Ph.D.
All rights Reserved, March 1999.
EGRET PUBLISHING INC.
In December 1994, I sent a manuscript to an AIDS Journal. During
a telephone conversation, the executive editor informed me that it
would take time to get through the peer review process. Near the
end of March 1995, I received a letter from the executive editor
informing me that my manuscript had been accepted for publication
and at the end of the letter, he put down "P.S. very interesting
hypothesis." In a subsequent telephone conversation, he indicated
the issue number in which my manuscript would be published.
When the issue came out, I noted my manuscript was not in it. I
faxed a letter to the executive editor, asking him to explain in
writing. A few weeks later, I received a letter from him, in which he
stated that he always liked to give people with alternative views a
chance but my work was highly controversial and he must decline to
publish it. A few days later, another letter from him arrived, in
which he reiterated the same points but added "apology for the
delay." This incident costed me thirteen months' delay.
On the cover of the following issue, there was the photograph of a
very prominent proponent of the HIV hypothesis and there were
changes of personnel in the organization. A new position of chief
editor was created and the position of the executive editor
disappeared. The former executive editor became the senior
managing editor. I could not help thinking my manuscript may have
something to do with what happened to the poor fellow.
Most of the advertisers in this journal are from the HIV industry
which is based on the myth that HIV causes AIDS. The myth is
supported by the U.S. government with taxpayers' money. The right
to free speech is for the famous and the powerful. The situation is
not much better north of the border.