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March 29, 2011

Ethics Uber-Dunce: Jose Canseco

I didn’t think even Jose Canseco could stoop this low. Continue reading →

Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Ethics Dunces, Family, Popular Culture, Professions

Tagged as "The Parent Trap", "The Patty Duke Show", baseball, casino, desperation, dishonesty, exhibition boxing, Jose Canseco, lies, misrepresentation, Ozzie Canseco, scams, steroids, stupidity

December 31, 2010

Hall of Fame Ethics: The Jeff Bagwell Dilemma

One baseball Hall of Fame controversy this year should be of interest to non-fans as well as fans, because it involves the proper application of the ethical principles of fairness and equity in an environment of doubt. It is the Jeff Bagwell dilemma. Continue reading →

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Filed under Journalism & Media, Professions, Religion and Philosophy, Sports, U.S. Society

Tagged as Barry Bonds, Baseball Writers Association of America, bigotry, character, cheating, equity, ethics, fairness, guilt by association, Jeff Bagwell, Mark McGwire, performance-enhancing drugs, rationalizations, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, sportsmanship, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown

October 4, 2010

The Replay and Integrity: Baseball at an Ethics Crossroads

As the game heads into its period of highest visibility, when casual baseball fans start paying attention to the best teams playing for the title, the likelihood of an obviously wrong call by an umpire leading to an undeserved win in a crucial game is unacceptably high. Why does baseball’s leadership resist a solution? Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Journalism & Media, Leadership, Professions, Science & Technology, Sports

Tagged as Armando Galarraga, baseball, competence, culture, ethics, fairness, instant replay, integrity, Jim Joyce, Major League Baseball, maple bats, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants, steroids, The Barn Door Fallacy, tradition, umpires

September 30, 2010

Thomas Boswell’s Outrageous Ethical Breach

If Tom Boswell knew that a steroid-user was going to be voted into the Hall under the false assumption that he was not a cheat, he was obligated to let the public, his colleagues who voted the honor, and Major League Baseball know about it too. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Health and Medicine, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Popular Culture, Sports, U.S. Society

Tagged as Barry Bonds, baseball, Cal Ripken, confidentiality, duty to warn, ethics, integrity, Jose Canseco, journalism, journalistic ethics, Ken Burns, Mark McGwire, performance-enhancing drugs, Ricky Henderson, Roger Clemens, Ryne Sandberg, Sammy Sosa, sportswriters, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, Thomas Boswell, whistleblowers

September 21, 2010

The Reggie Bush Affair

Reggie Bush still didn’t deserve to win the 2005 Heisman, because he wasn’t eligible. It’s obvious, just, and simple. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Education, Government & Politics, History, Journalism & Media, Professions, Sports, The Internet

Tagged as baseball, contests, corruption, fairness, football, Heisman Trophy, hypocrisy, integrity, N.C.A.A., pundits, rationalization, Reggie Bush, rules, sports fans, sportswriters, steroids

September 19, 2010

“The Ethicist” and His Definition of “Unethical”

While explaining in this week column why he hesitated to label a manifestly unethical practice unethical, The New York Times Magazine’s ethicist, Randy Cohen, clarified a couple of questions that have been bothering me for quite a while. Why do so many people react so violently to the conclusion that they have done something unethical? And why does Randy Cohen, a.k.a. “The Ethicist” so frequently endorse unethical conduct, especially dishonesty, when he believes it is motivated by virtuous motives? Continue reading →

The Trouble With Auto-Tune

The British show that launched “American Idol,” X-Factor, admitted that it had used Auto-Tune, an audio processor that corrects a singer’s pitch and tone. An 18-year-old contestant named Gamu Nhengu sang just a little too well in the show’s seventh … Continue reading →

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Filed under Around the World, Arts & Entertainment, Bioethics, Business & Commercial, Popular Culture, Professions, Science & Technology, Sports, U.S. Society

Tagged as "Glee", acting, American Idol, artistic standards, Auto-Tune, beauty, cultural standards, ethics, fairness, integrity, karaoke, performance-enhancing drugs, reality shows, Simon Cowell, singing, steroids, talent, value, X-Factor

August 22, 2010

Summer Rerun: “Ending the Bi-Partisan Effort to Destroy Trust in America”

Trust is the reason why ethics is so important in America: if there is a single post of the more than 700 I have written here since October 2009 I would like people to read, this is it. Continue reading →

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Tagged as "60 Minutes", "birthers", "vast right wing conspiracy", 2004 Presidential election, Abraham Lincoln, accountability, Afghanistan, AIG, Andrew Jackson, Ann Coulter, baseball, Bernie Madoff, Bill Belichek, Bill Frist, Bill of Rights, blogs, candor, CNN, competence, conservative talk radio, conspiracy theories, Dan Rather, Drudge Report, E.J. Dionne, Ed Schultz, Enron, F.D.R., fairness, Fox news, Frank Rich, George Washington, Glenn Beck, Goldman Sachs, gratitude, Greece, Hillary Clinton, honesty, integrity, Iraq, J.F.K., Jayson Blair, Keith Olbermann, Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin, Monica Lewinsky scandal, Nancy Pelosi, Newt Gingrich, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, O.J. Simpson, Oklahoma City bombing, openness, Paul Krugman, Pentagon shooter, President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush, President Richard Nixon, public trust. Vietnam, Rep. Charles Rangel, respect, Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Securities Exchange Commission, Senate health care bill, Sharron Angle, steroids, Teddy Roosevelt, The Associated Press, the Bush Administration, Tom DeLay, trust, trustworthiness, Tyco, U.S. Supreme Court, Watergate, Worldcom

August 4, 2010

Gift or Bribe? Barry Bonds’ Generosity to the NABJ

Is Barry Bonds trying to soften up the press? Does the gift create an appearance of impropriety? Is it, in short, a bribe, from which Bonds expects some kind words when he needs them? Continue reading →

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

Tag Archives: steroids

Ethics Uber-Dunce: Jose Canseco

Hall of Fame Ethics: The Jeff Bagwell Dilemma

The Replay and Integrity: Baseball at an Ethics Crossroads

Thomas Boswell’s Outrageous Ethical Breach

The Reggie Bush Affair

“The Ethicist” and His Definition of “Unethical”

The Trouble With Auto-Tune

Summer Rerun: “Ending the Bi-Partisan Effort to Destroy Trust in America”

Gift or Bribe? Barry Bonds’ Generosity to the NABJ

Charlie Rangel’s Defense and Buster Olney’s Fallacy

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