ABSTRACT
In 1990, during his tenure as Medical Anthropology Editor for the journal Social Science & Medicine, Charles Leslie wrote, in the journal, of his outrage at a controversial article entitled “Population Differences in Susceptibility to AIDS: An Evolutionary Analysis” written by J. P. Rushton and A. F. Bogaert (1989). Leslie manifested his deep concern as to how a faux pas in scientific thinking, which carried obvious racist overtones, could possibly be published in this renowned and peer-reviewed international journal.1
