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【方舟子按：以下是《自然·医学》主编Juan Carlos Lopez在答复SciDev.net
记者的询问时的说明。这表明司履生对事情经过的叙述是准确的，而魏于全和四
川大学在这个问题上没有说真话。】

译文：

我和一位同事讨论了此事，现在可以确认你在来信中提到的如下事实：我们当时
将会发表司的通讯和魏的反驳。我也能够确认司曾要求《自然·医学》推迟发表，
编辑们无法答应这一要求，我们最终取消了发表该通讯。

我无法确认的是，他是否是在压力下要求收回该通讯的。也许是，也许不是，我
只是不知道。

最后，我想要说明，我们的政策是，不与第三方讨论我们的编辑决定。因此我无
法进一步说明在司要求推迟发表后，为什么我们决定取消发表该通讯。

谢谢你对此事的关注。

i have discussed the matter with one of my colleagues and can now
confirm the following facts you mention in your letter: we were going
to publish si’s correspondence and a rebuttal by wei. i can also
confirm that si requested nm to delay publication, that the editors
could not honor such a request, and that we ultimately withdrew our
offer to publish the correspondence.

what i cannot confirm is that he was under pressure to withdraw the
correspondence. this may or may not have been the case; i simply don’t
know.

last, i’d like to say that it is not our policy to discuss with third
parties the basis for our editorial decisions. i can therefore make no
additional comments on the reasons why we decided to withdraw our
offer to publish the letter after si requested the delay in publication.

thanks for your interest in this matter.

juan carlos lopez

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