Arguments in editorial were not “biologically implausible”

EDITOR—In a news article Woodman reports that “controversy about the contraceptive pill and its effect on the risk of breast cancer was rekindled” in an editorial that I wrote in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.1 The editorial was intended in part to reduce undue complacency about the safety of the pill. Ex cathedra statements by Professor John Guillebaud in Woodman's article—that my argument “is biologically implausible”—need to be well justified, since …