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Current emphasis on brain death has come from a select cabal of doctors, and is at least in part driven by the need to harvest organs for transplant.
2007-09-12
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Virtual reality is allowing scientists to ask difficult questions about human behaviour that were previously not possible or were thought too unethical.
2010-08-20
ethics virtual reality psychology experiment behaviour empathyYou've never heard of me, but there's a good chance that you've read some of my work. I'm a hired gun, a doctor of everything, an academic mercenary. My customers are your students. I promise you that. Somebody in your classroom uses a service that you can't detect, that you can't defend against, that you may not even know exists.
2010-11-12
shadow scholar writing cheating student education academia teaching ethics university plagiarism spelling exam morality fraudEnvironmental campaigners 10:10 have withdrawn a film showing a teacher graphically exploding two of her students who refuse to reduce their carbon emissions, after complaints.
2010-10-02
environment activism video ethics pollutionTo illustrate how ethics are getting short-shrift in the tech world, Horowitz asked attendees whether they prefer the iPhone or Android. (When the majority voted for the iPhone, he joked that they were “suckers” who just chose the prettier device.) Then he asked whether it was a good idea to take data from an audience member’s phone in order to provide various (and mostly beneficial) services, or whether he should be left alone, and the...
2011-05-14
ethics Google philosophy theory technology thinkingThe Lulz Security hacking group that has claimed attacks on high-profile targets including the CIA and Sony in recent weeks has exclusively told the BBC's Newsnight programme that it wants to target the "higher ups" who write the rules and "bring them down a few notches".
2011-06-24
hacking ethics security Internet politics oppression resistanceThe hacker group Anonymous has taken down a US tourism website in Orlando, Florida as a protest against the arrests of people handing out food to the city's homeless.
2011-06-28
hacking hacktivist homeless ethics USAThe extent of US medical experiments in Guatemala on STDs during the 1940s is greater than previously thought, health authorities have told the BBC. The number of infected people could be as high as 2,500, says the president of the Medical Association of Guatemala. According to a US report released on Monday, 1,300 Guatemalans were infected without their knowledge to study the effects of penicillin. US scientists knew they were violating...
2011-09-01
Guatemala USA health test ethics STD syphilis gonorrhoea chancroidThe United States government has apologised for deliberately infecting hundreds of people in Guatemala with gonorrhoea and syphilis as part of medical tests more than 60 years ago. None of those infected - mentally ill patients and prisoners - consented. Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom accused the US of "crimes against humanity". US President Barack Obama has called Mr Colom to apologise and has said the acts ran contrary to...
2010-10-01
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