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The standards apparently involved accidentally publishing a "personal attack" on my part. No such personal attack was written by me, nor published by them. Certainly the editors' role is to prevent personal attacks from appearing in print. That is why the two levels of editors who actually vetted the review did not delete, or even query, the discussion of the Sibley work from the piece, for it was not at all a personal attack. It was about the quality and honesty of published research, old news in the primary and secondary literature; and particularly the fact that in spite of well-publicized revelations, no formal adjudication, nor even investigation, had ever taken place. And especially that the National Academy had never even investigated, in spite of the fact that Sibley was a member, having been elected on account largely of his DNA hybridization work. That is the most interesting part of the story.
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