Past conflicts made current
An Editor’s Note:
On Nov. 29 and Feb. 28, the Op-Ed page published articles
co-written by Stephen E. Flynn, a senior fellow at the Council on
Foreign Relations, on the need to scan shipping containers. An article last Monday in the news pages of The Times
reported that Mr. Flynn had earlier been a paid consultant to Science
Applications International Corporation, which manufactured a
container-scanning system.
The Times’s Op-Ed contract compels
contributors to disclose potential conflicts of interest, but not past
ones. In this regard, Mr. Flynn did not violate the contract. However,
had the editors known of Mr. Flynn’s previous relationship with Science
Applications International, they would have made that information
available to readers. Link
Shouldn’t listing "potential" conflicts naturally include past work?
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