I resigned (October 3, 2018) from Public Health France’s scientific committee after being threatened with suit for libel (in France, whistle-blowing while employed as a civil servant is a specific criminal offense, in contrast to the United States, where in 1912 the Lloyd–LaFollette Act began the process of protecting civil servants;). The editor of “The Wine Review of France” warned (June 21, 2017) that I am a member of the “hygienist lobby” (http://www.larvf.com/vin-cote-rotie-contre-lexomil-audrey-bourolleau,4540951.asp). No funding was received for the writing of this correspondence.