Ethics Challenges and Responses

The Mercury Moment

“This is not an issue of jobs versus the environment. It's an issue of the American people's public health versus a narrow special interest.”

By Michael R. Bloomberg

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-bloomberg/epa-mercury-coal-emissions_b_1148099.html


Is Susan G. Komen Denying the BPA‐Breast Cancer Link?

Critics claim the leading Breast cancer research group is in the pocket of its BPA‐happy sponsors.

By Amy Silverstein

Mon Oct. 3, 2011 2:30 AM PDT

http://motherjones.com/environment/2011/09/breast-cancer-komen-bpa

A Drug That Wakes The Near Dead

By JENEEN INTERLANDI Published: December 1, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/can-ambien-wake-minimally-conscious.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

Opinion: Ghost Writing is Fraudulent

A legal remedy is needed to curb unethical “guest authorship” in medical journals.

By Simon Stern and Trudo Lemmens | November 2, 2011

http://the-scientist.com/2011/11/02/opinion-ghost-writing-is-fraudulent/

Rome Hartman: Television News in the Digital Age
Ethix, an e-publication of the Center for Integrity in Business at Seattle Pacific University has a very interesting interview by Al Erisman in its November 21, 2011 edition:

http://ethix.org