Tag Archives: performance-enhancing drugs

August 2, 2010

Charlie Rangel’s Defense and Buster Olney’s Fallacy

Charlie Rangel’s defense and Buster Olney’s rationalization would make us all accept corruption because we cannot stop it, and would therefore corrupt us all. Continue reading →

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Filed under Business & Commercial, Daily Life, Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Leadership, Professions, Sports, U.S. Society

Tagged as "everybody does it", baseball, Buster Olney, character, cheating, Congress, corruption, ethics, fairness, House Ethics Committee, integrity, Jason Blair, performance-enhancing drugs, plagiarism, rationalizations, Rep. Charles Rangel, resume, sportsmanship, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown

May 31, 2010

The Ethics of Giving Up on Ethics

The growth of ethical rot in failed civilizations has always been fertilized by quitters. Continue reading →

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Filed under Citizenship, Daily Life, Journalism & Media, Race, Sports, U.S. Society

Tagged as apathy, Barry Bonds, baseball, Brian Cushing, cheating, child labor laws, Clarence Darrow, consumerism, courage, cowardice, culture, cycling, doping, drug legalization, environmentalism, ethics, fairness, honesty, John Adams, justice, justice system, Lance Armstrong, Mark McGwire, Martin Luther King, N.F.L., Paul Daugherty, performance-enhancing drugs, polution, racism, Ralph Nader, recreational drugs, Samuel Gompers, slavery, society, Susan B. Anthony, unions, William Lloyd Garrison, women's rights

May 22, 2010

Armstrong, Bonds, Steroids, and Bias

It’s time to be fair to Lance Armstrong—and Barry Bonds—by not closing our eyes to what is almost certainly the sad truth about another false hero. Continue reading →

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Filed under Around the World, Health and Medicine, Journalism & Media, Race, Sports, U.S. Society

Tagged as "Game of Shadows", baseball, bias, cheating, cycling, ethics, fairness, Floyd Landis, Greg LaMond, honesty, Jose Canseco, journalistic objectivity, Lance Armstrong, lying, performance-enhancing drugs, predjudice, racing, sportsmanship, steroids, Tour de France

January 12, 2010

Mark McGwire’s Steroid Confession, Part 2: Neyer and the Rationalizations

The worst thing about Mark McGwire’s belated confession is that I once again have to listen to and read the absurd, hackneyed, illogical and ethically obtuse arguments for ignoring his conduct. Continue reading →

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Filed under Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Science & Technology, Sports, The Internet, U.S. Society

Tagged as cheating, ESPN, ethics, fairness, honesty, integrity, Mark McGwire, performance-enhancing drugs, Rob Neyer, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown

January 12, 2010

Mark McGwire’s Steroid Confession, Part 1

Mark McGwire’s long-awaited admission that he used steroid should have no bearing at all on the judgment of him as an unworthy baseball idol. McGwire cheated, and his use of steroids damaged his fellow players and the game. Continue reading →

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Filed under Business & Commercial, Ethics Scoreboard classics, Health and Medicine, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Religion and Philosophy, Science & Technology, Sports, U.S. Society

Tagged as apology, Barry Bonds, cheating, confessions, contrition, Ethics Scoreboard, honor, integrity, Major League Baseball, Mark McGwire, performance-enhancing drugs, Roger Clemens, Roger Maris, sportsmanship, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown

Tag Archives: performance-enhancing drugs

Charlie Rangel’s Defense and Buster Olney’s Fallacy

The Ethics of Giving Up on Ethics

Armstrong, Bonds, Steroids, and Bias

Mark McGwire’s Steroid Confession, Part 2: Neyer and the Rationalizations

Mark McGwire’s Steroid Confession, Part 1

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