Correction: Wade tells blogger Luke Ford that he retired from the Times 2 years ago, but still contributes articles to the paper. Neither Wade nor the Times returned earlier requests for comment on the matter.
[Wade:] “I retired from the Times about two years ago. There’s a blogosphere story today that the Times didn’t like the book and fired me, but the writer invented the whole thing based on his having seen the words ‘former Science editor’ in the piece I did in Time.”
...Luke: “You will be writing future articles for the New York Times?”
Nicholas: “I assume so. I write for them quite regularly on a contract basis but I am not on their staff any longer.”
This has happened: 30-year New York Times Science Writer Out After Writing Book About Genetics, Race.
From that page:
Luke Ford source http://www.lukeford.net/blog/?p=54601 :
I propose the prediction be amended to, “The New York Times will never accept articles from Nicholas Wade again.”