  This is a response to "Retraction Note: Can Two-Way Direct Co mmunication
Protocols Be Considered Secure? Mladen Pavicic," Nanoscale Research Letters,14,
242 (2019). The "anonymised" report which served the editors to retract the
paper is reproduced in full. A response to the report by the author of the
original paper, sent to the editors of the journal, is also reproduced in full.
The author analyses and discusses both the report and the retraction note and
explains why he cannot agree to the retraction.
