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On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 8:59 AM, Aaron Bauman <bman@g.o> wrote: |
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> You are focusing on purely financial or tangible gains and attempting to pander law based interpretations of a conflict of interest which are inaccurate. Please, go read and stop spreading false information. |
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Whether Gentoo ought to use the standards for conflict of interest |
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that most organizations and courts use is one matter. Whether or not |
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I'm accurately stating what these standards are is another. |
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If you feel that having rendered a judgement on a matter creates a |
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conflict of interest when hearing an appeal I'm certainly interested |
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in citations that support this argument, or documented policies that |
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prohibit these situations in mainstream organizations. |
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Wikipedia has a reasonable write-up of what conflict of interest is if |
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you're interested, and it largely agrees with what I'm saying. If you |
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feel otherwise feel free to cite any portion you consider contrary and |
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elaborate, or any other reasonable source. |
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I'll go ahead and cite a reasonable summary from the top of the |
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Wikipedia article: |
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A widely used definition is: "A conflict of interest is a set of |
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circumstances that creates a risk that professional judgement or |
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actions regarding a primary interest will be unduly influenced by a |
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secondary interest."[1] Primary interestrefers to the principal goals |
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of the profession or activity, such as the protection of clients, the |
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health of patients, the integrity of research, and the duties of |
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public officer. Secondary interest includes personal benefit and is |
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not limited to only financial gain but also such motives as the desire |
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for professional advancement, or the wish to do favours for family and |
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friends. |
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Certainly in a situation where a secondary interest such as the above |
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exists a Council member should both recuse themselves from a Council |
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appeal, and from the original decision in Comrel/QA/whatever, because |
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the interest would be just as much a problem there. |
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Rich |