We’ve updated STAT’s guidelines for op-ed submissions
We are tightening our standards for opinion pieces and our practices for vetting contributing writers.
At STAT, we are supremely proud of our journalism and our staff. We also value the trust of our readers.
So we have been distressed to learn in recent days that some outside contributors to our opinion section failed to disclose conflicts of interest or misled us about the true authorship and origins of their op-eds.
We have retracted one piece, as explained in . This experience prompted us to tighten
