Constance Holden's article" Publisher draws censorship charge"(News, 12 July, p. 177) is a concise and accurate synopsis ofa protract-ed and nasty series ofevents. Although charg-es of anti-Semitism against me are wrong, they are also understandable. My review (1) of Kevin MacDonald's excellent book, A Peo-ple That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (2), made unrealistic as-sumptions about readers' familiarity with is-sues at hand, and so drew conclusions based on inadequately supplied information. Unfortunately, one way to make charges of anti-Semitism stick is to publish a sub-mission that draws such charges, then refuse to publish a rejoinder (3) that apologizes for shortcomings, attempts to clarify misunderstandings, and refers readers to ad hoc sources of relevant information (4). Five editorial board members of Ethology and So-ciobiology judged my rejoinder to be such a submission, but the journal's publisher, Elsevier Inc., still refuses to publish it. I ask interested readers to withhold judg-ment until they have a fuller explanation of my views-which can be obtained (includ-ing a copy of the accepted-but-censored addendum) by forwarding an address label to the address below.