These links cover one person's research, the same person as the parent article, via press releases seeking controversy and attention for his commercial work.
His work doesn't appear to have been desk-drawered or self-censored.
His work doesn't appear to have been desk-drawered or self-censored.
Reinvigorating your old work for publication, once you have a commercially viable avenue to promote it, is pretty average capitalism.
Plenty of work that is politically awkward is published under a strict pseudonym. This wasn't - and the author's position is that it was their choice not to publish.