[Electronic mail discussion between Jon Cohen and Harold Varmus]

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Jon Cohen
From: Jon Cohen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: NEJM article
Date: Monday, October 06, 1997 9:52 AM
Thanks. I think there are three issues:
1. Why didn't they solicit your opinion earlier?
2. Why didn't they run the editorials by the AIDS researchers on their
editorial board?
3. Why did they run Lurie/Wolfe when it appeared to violate their own
policy regarding embargos/Ingelfinger (Lunrie and Wolfe had held press
conferences prior to the publication).
Best,
Jon
> From: [email protected]
> To: Jon Cohen <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: NEJM article
> Date: Monday, October 06, 1997 10:35 AM
> Only to say that it could not have been included in the same issue unless
> the editors had chosen to elicit our opinion earlier. By the time I was
> aware of the Angell and Wolfe/Lurie pieces (through an unapproved route
of
> dissemination of proofs), the issue was (I am told by Kassirer) locked
up.
> Obviously we would have preferred to have appeared side-by-side, but we
> seem ultimately to have gotten our message out fairly effectively through
> our piece and many other commentators. Now we can wait for the letters
> and other responses to what has been published up to this point!

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