Sullivan was able to do this undercover work very successfully and turned in his findings, including the news about the �red clause� and press censorship, in a lengthy article entitled �The patent medicine conspiracy against the freedom of the press.� Curtis applauded Sullivan�s work but considered this article too long and legalistic for his journal and offered it to Norman Hapgood, the scholarly editor of Collier�s, The National Weekly. Hapgood published Sullivan�s reforming editorial in November 1905 in Collier�s, which now became the leading popular journal decrying patent medicines to the American public. Hapgood also hired a special reporter to fully expose the nostrum industry to the public, Samuel Hopkins Adams.