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AkE'ICAH LtEDICAI NFwS6 JULY20, 1970 ~h.~r.y~.fa ~.t,. ft. 7.. 4 €, ,o n ~1' ~i~[~.~r: !'~ «E E`i;~~U t~, Cc' .~r0;~o L L 1 R e 1 e Rf . !, with lunz c Tncer have not bean reiecr.•d authors al' of the opinions and recom- ~ Two ref+orts ,, on experiments with be acceptt ble without revision;' the ed- dogs suppoaedly linking cig:.ret smoki2g itor repor,ed. "Therefore, we sent the '_ manuscripts were not rejected," Dr. not mean "automatic acceotance."stncP iwssey oeciarea_ inrerpreta;;on of revision "I'd like to make it clear that the manuscripts by the authors still would gest rj''y~ more t:un a oozen consultants meicalµiowrpl, he saidl, who reviewed the papers for JAMA. Dr. Hussey noted that revision oflthe ,~. ~Tjypn ,n <nT n r srm ty been rP+urn^c~ Icr re:ir•ens sug- t em Dr. HUssey said thr, mam; them for reconsideration, osub~it+,- --; . Association, according to editor Hugh The authors have tlte option of revis- -H. Hussey, MD. . ing the manuscripts and resubmitting byThe Jou:nal of'the American A4edicaf inendations for revision." THE PAPERS, written by Oscar :;uer- bach, MD; senior medical investigator for Veterans Administration Hosp'stal! - East Orangc; N.J., and E. Cuyler Ham- mond; ScD, a vice president of the American Cancer,Society, were received unsolicited' in March, according to Dr. Hussey. "As is the case with most unsolicited manuscripts, these were seat out to consultants fbr review," the JAAfA ed- itor explained! Because of'the "enormous amount of publicity' the manuscripts receive&at a news conference sponsore&by the Can- cer Society earlier this year, a larger number o[ consuttants than usual was asked to review them, Dr, Hussey said. The consultants included a veterinary medical patholbgist. '15RHEht1d L TIfE opinions of'the con- sultants ha& been recoii•ed; it' became evident Jhat rhe manuscripts would not and ours rnay differ in the final anal- ysis. •'ONCE AGAIN;' the editor emph'a- sized„"I'd like to maN.e it clear that the manuscripts were not rejectedl" Dr. Hussey said Jl,1-fA rules do not permit~ disclosure-other than to the authors-of the comment; received from the cwisultants. The dog,smoking experiments have been the centen oPi controversy since earljn,MJsy, when th'eTobacco Ihstitutc announced it was mounting a major at- tack against the validity of tl.;e research- ers' findings. . Dr. Husseyy said there was no pres- sure on the medical journal from the tobacco industry. Dr. Auer!rach and Dr. Hammond re- ported oni lheiP, experiments in a joint paper presented at a, Syrnposibm on Disea,es of ihe Chest durin',;,t•ne Scien- tifia Assernult' at lhc,• Ah1A's Annuall Convention in :.hicago in June: .