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December 31, 2011

The “Your Right To Engage in Ignorant and Dangerous Speech Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t Unethical For Me To Help It Be As Loud As Possible” Dept.: ABC Full Circle and WordPress

As the New Year dawns, we see two companies in the communications business, and two situations raising the question, is it ethical or unethical to allow someone to use your product or service to broadcast harmful speech? Continue reading →

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Filed under Business & Commercial, Citizenship, Government & Politics, Health and Medicine, Religion and Philosophy, The Internet

Tagged as ABC Full Circle, Bare Naked Islam, bigotry, disease prevention, Disney, free speech, hate speech, ignorance, Jenny McCarthy, Lowe's, The Council on American-Islamic Relations, Times Square, vaccines, WordPress

September 15, 2011

NOW Do You Get It, Bachmann Fans?

As I knew and hopes she would, Rep. Bachmann finally demonstrated the tangible danger of her irresponsible contempt for facts, and showed what a disaster she would be in a job where more people took her seriously. Continue reading →

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Filed under Bioethics, Education, Health and Medicine, Incompetent Elected Officials, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Leadership, Research and Scholarship, U.S. Society

Tagged as autism, health scares, human papilloma virus, irresponsibility, Michele Bachmann, myths, recklessness, stupidity, trustworthiness, vaccines

August 17, 2011

Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Ethics Hero REVOKED, Integrity Missing

t didn’t take long for newly-minted GOP presidential contender Rick Perry, now leading in the polls, to tell us what we needed to know about his values and integrity.
He doesn’t have them. Continue reading →

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Filed under Bioethics, Business & Commercial, Ethics Heroes, Family, Gender and Sex, Government & Politics, Health and Medicine, Incompetent Elected Officials, Leadership, Religion and Philosophy, Science & Technology, U.S. Society

Tagged as 2012 Republican presidential nomination, cervical cancer, conflicts of interest, cronyism, Gardasil, Gov. Rick Perry, honesty, human papilloma virus, integrity, Jenny McCarthy, lobbyists, morality, social conservatives, Texas, vaccines

February 24, 2011

Oprah’s Dangerous Breach of Diligence and Responsibility

Morrissey correctly diagnoses the ethical problem: “Seeing as how Oprah’s most successful “product” these days is cultivating and grooming personalities into credible and trusted sources, a great deal of responsibility comes with that task.” Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Health and Medicine, Journalism & Media, Popular Culture, Professions, Religion and Philosophy, U.S. Society

Tagged as "Dr. Phil", accountability, autism, Dr. Jan Adams, Dr. Melvin Levine, ethics, experts, Jenny McCarthy, Oprah Winfrey, recklessness, responsibility, Rhonda Byrne, self help, Tracie Egan Morrissey, trust, trustworthiness, vaccines