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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.

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Ethics 101:

Commitments, rational arguments, and other people.

Category: Ethics 101

As a brief follow-up to my post thinking about Dr. J's view that cats are a special class of being that ought not be used in research, I would like to assert that:...

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Non-rational lines, empathy, and animal research.

Category: Ethics 101

Today, at R.E.S.E.A.R.C.H.E.R.S., Dr J. posted a picture of a charming looking cat with the following text: As little as I can do to push back against the sick minded evil mo-fo bastards who think animal testing on cats is...

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Vaccine refuseniks are free-riders.

Category: Ethics 101

Opting out of vaccines while others receive them means you receive benefits that others pay for.

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Silence is the enemy: addressing the causes.

Category: Ethics 101

The ethics of sexual violence seem pretty black and white. And yet sexual violence is a reality -- as a constant threat, if not as something that has been committed -- for more women than you can imagine.

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Stepping away from silence.

Category: Blogospheric science

This month, Sheril Kirshenbaum and Dr. Isis are spearheading a blogospheric initiative to call attention to a continuing epidemic of mass rapes in Liberia even six years after the end of its 14 year civil war, and to try to...

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Some very raw thoughts on the assassination of Dr. George Tiller.

Category: Current events

Sunday morning, Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas, was murdered on his way into the church where he worships. Dr. Tiller was targeted because he was one of the few doctors in the U.S. who performed late-term abortions....

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Ethics and the 'Oprah effect'.

Category: Communication

There's an interesting piece in the Chicago Tribune on the "Oprah effect". The upshot is that products or people who Oprah deigns to grace with airtime tend to find enormous public acceptance. While this is well and good if the...

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Trust and accountability in the vaccine-autism wars.

Category: Communication

There's a new feature article by Liza Gross [1] up at PLoS Biology. Titled "A Broken Trust: Lessons from the Vaccine-Autism Wars," the article does a nice job illuminating how the themes of trust and accountability play out in interactions...

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'Chronic' Lyme disease article in Journal of Medical Ethics called unethical.

Category: Ethics 101

How a paper which purports to be about medical ethics itself falls short of a central tenet of medical ethics.

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Advice on how to be ethical.

Category: Ethics 101

Bruce Weinstein ("The Ethics Guy" at BusinessWeek.com) offers advice on how to be ethical to the business school class of 2009. His five nuggets of advice seem like good ones for anyone who is interested in being ethical. Two in...

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