My first rejection letter

Came across my first letter of rejection for a submitted manuscript.

Dr Mario Pineda-Krch
Department of Theoretical Ecology
Ecology Building
S-223 62 Lund
Sweden

Dear Dr. Pineda-Krch
Your manuscript “On the potential for evolutionary change through meristematic cell-lineages” has been favourably reviewed by our editorial staff. In fact, we consider it to be the most brilliant paper ever submitted to this Editorial Office.

It is an honour and a privilege for our journal to publish this path-breaking work; however, due to the recent public discontent at clonal organisms – albeit sheep – we are going to postpone publication until a more feasible and favourable review of your work in the press can be anticipated. Meanwhile we suggest that you piss off to some remote Pacific island in order to avoid being lynched by ecological fundamentalists

Sincerely Yours.
<name removed>
Editor-in-chief

This is from the “Mario’s Entangled Bank” blog (http://pineda-krch.com) of Mario Pineda-Krch, a theoretical biologist at the University of Alberta.