The article explains that, because Collins is a member of the National Academy, he was able to publish it in PNAS under the mechanism where, as an Academy member, he gets to pick which of his friends reviewed the paper, and he acts as the editor on his own submission.
He will do this after he has sifted through the 156, 000 electronic submissions received by Culture Department in its week-long submission on the deal that closed at 1200 today and has examined a paper petition from the campaign group 38 Degrees with 100, 000 signatures.
The New York Times is considering options to create an in-house submission system that could make it easier for would-be leakers to provide large files to the paper.