Can You Give Another Striking Example of Censorhip Action, in Voltaires Homeland this time ?
The draft of a study entitled “The Medical Consequences of Narghile (Hookah, Shisha) Use in the World” was first submitted in French to a French medical journal (“La Presse Médicale”) by Winter 2005. There, the document has been frozen for months by “peer-reviewers” who, in the end, decided to reject it. They could not “argue”, as their English-speaking colleagues of the Hookah Studies Monopoly would deceivingly do, that the English is poor simply because it was drafted in French… As they could not find a single scientific error in it (comments on reports of their “peer-reviewers” available upon request), they were not unscrupulous to say it was not “scientific”… The author eventually understood the whole scheme when he heard later on French TV that a team of researchers was carrying on, since the very date his manuscript was submitted to the above medical journal, a “study” that would be “the first study” (“la premiere etude” in French) on narghile smoking in France… In order to circl
