Institutional Review Boards Overstepping Their Roles … from Gwendolyn Bradley The AAUP recently submitted comments to the Department of Health and Human Services in response to proposed new rule making on institutional review boards, the campus bodies that oversee research on human subjects[...]
Posts Tagged ‘ethics’
September 6th, 2011 - 7:46 am § in Politics
BREAKING NEWS: Ikea ‘used political prisoners in GDR as slave labour’
Swedish retail giant Ikea used political prisoners in East Germany as “slave labour” to make furniture, secret police files unearthed by a German broadcaster appear to show. Ikea developed strong links with the communist state in the 1970s, opening a number of manufacturing facilities, one of wh[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Kucinich implicated by letter to Gaddafi’s son.
Al Jazeera has just announced that they have found a letter between from Dennis Kucinich to Saif el Islam, Gaddafi’s most feared son, suggesting ways that the Gaddafi regime could combat the NATO led effort, including possible law suits. The letter requests cooperation between the Congress[...]
April 22nd, 2011 - 1:43 pm § in America
Poon Caught in Unfunny Prank
Ed. Why is this funny? It is funny to ME because the National Lampoon grew out of my college humor magazine, The Harvard Lampoon. Only Harvards (what we call ourselves) could pull off creating a national commercial success out of a college prank pub. Still not funny? Well, the nationalization [...]
March 18th, 2011 - 11:17 am § in Politics
Assisted Suicide Law: Birthing Pains
Ed. Although I support the right of people to make this choice, I oppose Washington State’s assisted suicide law because of the way it was written. I suspect the cost far exceeds any benefit and worry that this is a slippery slope toward the state over riding medical ethics I treasure. T[...]
Evan Bayh Joins Fox News!!!
from Huff Post: UPDATE: Fox News officially announced on Monday afternoon that former Democratic Senator Evan Bayh is becoming a contributor to the network. Michael Clemente, the network’s senior vice president for news, announced the move in a statement. He said that “Senator Bayh’s decad[...]
Haven’t Heard About Revolution In China? There Is A Reason
from Firedoglake by Bill Egnor: If you are wondering why you’ve not really heard much about the call for a “Jasmine Revolution” style protests in the Peoples Republic of China, well there is a reason for that. The Chinese authorities are not waiting around for the protests to grow and become s[...]
March 5th, 2011 - 1:44 pm § in Misc.
Expediency vs. Morality
What to do about Libya ought to be a no-brainer. An odious dictator with a long record of sponsoring terrorism is now clinging to power in the face of popular revolt by mowing down unarmed demonstrators with jets, tanks, and machine guns. The Libyan people, who want to get rid of him, are facing [...]
A Sad Story In the Week Between Rosha Hashana and Yom Kippur
Sadly I was not to be in my family home for much of the following five decades. and was unaware that my career had caused a huge problem for Hugh’s ego. For example, while he has manufactured memories for his time in secondary school, by the time he entered Boston Latin School (my a[...]
Secretary Clinton Welcomes Myanmar Back to The World
This picture makes me so proud to be an American. In contrast to the cowboy diplomacy of the Reagan/Bush II eras, Obama and Bush I have taken the wise course of patience in Burma. “Mission Accomplished” indeed! There is a subtext here that you may be missing. The Mao doctrine was and[...]