Category Archives: Health and Medicine

Obamacare Defenders, Spinning

“It would be nice, it really would, if partisans on both sides of a legitimate, close issue of national importance would admit that there are valid arguments on each side, show some mutual respect, and not frame their arguments as if anyone who thinks differently is deluded, stupid or evil….” Continue reading

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Our Untrusted Professions: Another One Bites The Dust…Or Should.

One of the few professions we trust is pharmacists. It appears even that trust is undeserved. Continue reading

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A Question For President Obama and His Campaign: Why Lie?

I have an iron-clad rule for all Presidents, regardless of party, ideology and political philosophy: Don’t use deception as a tool of governance. I have a related rule for Presidents who get elected by pledging honesty and transparency in government: … Continue reading

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“Goody Goody” to the Least Sympathetic Betrayal Victim of the Year, Former Senator Arlen Specter

Arlen Specter was double-crossed. Goody-goody. Continue reading

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Ethics Train Wreck Chronicles: Villains, Victims, Hypocrites and Unlikely Heroes In the Contraception / Limbaugh / Fluke Debacle

If this isn’t the Ethics Train Wreck of the Year, I don’t want to be around when the real one arrives. Continue reading

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The NFL, Battling Its Own Sick Culture

An unfolding bounties scandals shows that the NFL culture of violence is unethical and sick, and it remains to be seen if the illness can be cured and allow the NFL to maintain the qualities that make pro football America’s most popular and profitable sport. Continue reading

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Weekend Ethics Catch-Up

Here’s what you may have missed this weekend… Continue reading

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Unethical Quote of the Week: The Washington Post Editors

The Washington Post declares that persuading a woman not to abort has no value. Continue reading

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Ethics Quiz: Let’s Play “Icky… or Unethical?” !

It’s time to play everyone’s favorite play-at-home ethics quiz show, “Ick or Unethical?”…where you, the audience, have to decide whether our guest’s conduct is truly unethical, or just so disgusting, strange or creepy that it just seems like it! Continue reading

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Ethics Incoherence From Sir Paul

Paul makes a statement about drugs. If only we could tell what it was. Continue reading

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