Medicine is supposed to be based on science and research, and treatments are supposed to be evidence-based. Unfortunately, in Australia cancel culture and personal attacks have replaced science as the basis of medicine in some quarters. In 2019 Australian Journal of General Practice, the official Journal of the Royal Australian College of General practice commissioned two papers on the management of melanoma. These papers were published following extensive review. Immediately, the Melanoma Institute Australia demented the papers be retracted as they contained factual errors. Using “independent reviewers” the journal retracted the papers, only informing the authors after the fact, against all guidelines. Furthermore, the journal’s Editor in Chief, Prof. Stephen Margolis, refused to either let the authors no the contents of these “’reviews” or no what the supposed factual errors were. The Melanoma Institute of Australia immediately went to the general press with false information to totally destroy the reputations of the authors. The then President of the College, on his death bed, admitted that due process was not followed and sent copies of the reviews to the authors. The reviews were little more than personal attacks, with not one comment on the actual content of the papers, let alone listing of any factual errors. After this, Prof. Richard Scolyer of the Melanoma Institute Australia, in a lecture, stated as fact the exact things that the retracted papers contained. The College refuses to do due process and look into this matter. This can only be interpreted as malicious destruction of reputation by rivals with access to the media, and ultimately the losers will be patients.