We got permission from the original authors to use their articles in this way; assuring them we had no intention of actually republishing their work and would debrief the editor of the ruse after the experiment. In addition to asking whether editors and reviewers would repeat their previous publication decision when the authors were no longer eminent scholars from top universities like Harvard and Stanford, we wondered if the reverse might occur: would they accept a previously rejected manuscript by an unknown author when it was resubmitted to them with the name of an eminent person on it as the author?