[munch117]

That's my interpretation as well.

It doesn't put him in a much better light, though. It's like he's so incompetent that he didn't even realise that there was something that needed covering up.

[anjc]

There wasn't something that needed covering up. If he'd reported the methodology in the paper there would have been no issues.

It's likely that this was omitted from the paper as an oversight; such imputation likely wouldn't have affected the outcome of peer review.