Psychology : Ethics

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 14:40:08 GMT

THE NEW YORK TIMES

May 31, 2005

Despite Vow, Drug Makers Still Withhold Data

By ALEX BERENSON

When the drug industry came under fire last summer for failing to disclose

poor results from studies of antidepressants, major drug makers promised to

provide more information about their research on new medicines. But nearly a

year later, crucial facts about many clinical trials remain hidden,

scientists independent of the companies say.

Within the drug industry, companies are sharply divided about how much

information to reveal, both about new studies and completed studies for

drugs already being sold. The split is unusual in the industry, where

companies generally take similar stands on regulatory issues.

Eli Lilly and some other companies have posted hundreds of trial results on

the Web and pledged to disclose all results for all drugs they sell. But

other drug makers, including Merck and Pfizer, release less information and

are reluctant to add more, citing competitive pressures.

As a result, doctors and patients lack critical information about important

drugs, academic researchers say, and the companies can hide negative trial

results by refusing to publish studies, or by cherry-picking and

highlighting the most favorable data from studies they do publish.

"There are a lot of public statements from drug companies saying that they

support the registration of clinical trials or the dissemination of trial

results, but the devil is in the details," said Dr. Deborah Zarin, director

of clinicaltrials.gov, a Web site financed by the National Institutes of

Health that tracks many studies.

Journal editors and academic scientists have pressed big drug makers to

release more information about their studies for years. But the calls for

more disclosure grew stronger after reports last year that several companies

had failed to publish studies that showed their antidepressants worked no

better than placebos.

In August, GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle a suit by

Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general, alleging that Glaxo had hidden

results from trials showing that its antidepressant Paxil might increase

suicidal thoughts in children and teenagers. At a House hearing in

September, Republican and Democratic lawmakers excoriated executives from

several top companies, including Pfizer and Wyeth, for hiding study results.

In response, many companies promised to do better.

At the same time, Merck and Pfizer have been criticized for failing to

disclose until this year clinical trial results that indicated that cox-2

painkillers like Vioxx might be dangerous to the heart.

Drug makers test their medicines in thousands of trials each year, and

federal laws require the disclosure of all trials and trial results to the

F.D.A. While too complex for many patients to understand, the trial results

are useful to doctors and academic scientists, who use them to compare drugs

and look for clues to possible side effects. But companies are not required

to disclose trial results to scientists or the public.

Some scientists and lawmakers say new rules are needed, and a bill that

would require the companies to provide more data was introduced in the

Senate in February. So far no hearings have been scheduled on the

legislation. The bill's prospects are uncertain, said a co-sponsor, Senator

Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut.

The drug makers have been criticized both for failing to provide advance

notice of clinical trials before they begin and for refusing to publish

completed trial results for medicines that are already being sold.

The two issues are related, because companies cannot easily hide the results

of trials that have been disclosed in advance, said Dr. Alan Breier, chief

medical officer of Lilly, the company that has gone furthest in disclosing

results.

"You're registering a trial - at some point, the results have got to show

up," Dr. Breier said. He added that disclosing trial results was important

both to give doctors and patients as much information as possible and to

improve the industry's reputation, which has been damaged by several recent

withdrawals of high-profile drugs.

"Fundamentally, what we're doing is in the interest of patients, and I think

that that is the winning model, for academia, for industry and for the

future," he said.

In September, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, an

industry lobbying group known as PhRMA, said it would create a site for

companies to post the results of completed trials. Then, under pressure from

the editors of medical journals, the major drug companies in January agreed

to expand the number of trials registered on clinicaltrials.gov, the N.I.H.

site, which was originally created so patients with life-threatening

diseases could find out about clinical trials.

But Merck, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, three of the six largest drug

companies, have met the letter but not the spirit of that agreement, Dr.

Zarin said.

The three companies have filed only vague descriptions of many studies,

often failing even to name the drugs under investigation, Dr. Zarin said.

For example, Merck describes one trial as a "one-year study of an

investigational drug in obese patients."

Drug names are crucial, because the clinicaltrials.gov registry is designed

in part to prevent companies from conducting several trials of a drug, then

publicizing the trials with positive results while hiding the negative ones.

If the descriptions do not include drug names, it is hard to tell how many

times a drug has been studied.

"If you're a systematic reviewer trying to understand all the results for a

particular drug, you might never know," Dr. Zarin said. "You don't know

whether you're seeing the one positive result and not the four negative

results - you don't have context."

Pfizer, Merck and GlaxoSmithKline say that they disclose their largest

trials, which determine whether a drug will be approved. Though they would

not discuss their policies in detail, executives and press representatives

at the companies said generally that disclosing too much information about

early-stage trials might reveal business or scientific secrets.

Rick Koenig, a spokesman for Glaxo, said the company understood the concerns

about disclosure and planned to add more information to clinicaltrials.gov.

He declined to be more specific, saying Glaxo and other companies were

discussing the issue with regulators and medical journal editors.

In contrast, Lilly has registered all but its smallest trials at

clinicaltrials.gov. Dr. Breier of Lilly said the company believed that it

could protect its intellectual property and still increase the amount of

information it released.

Lilly has also posted the results of many completed studies to

clinicalstudyresults.org, the Web site created last September by PhRMA. That

site now contains some information on nearly 80 drugs that are already on

the market. Both Lilly and Glaxo have posted detailed summaries of hundreds

of studies.

Pfizer, on the other hand, has posted only a few, and Merck has posted none.

All the companies were meeting the group's guidelines for the site, said Dr.

Alan Goldhammer, associate vice president for regulatory affairs at PhRMA.

The lobbying group requires only that its members post a notice that a trial

has been completed and a link to a published study or a summary of an

unpublished study, he said. Studies completed before October 2002 are exempt

from the requirements, and PhRMA has not set penalties for companies that do

not comply.

"We're seeing pretty regular posting on a weekly basis, and as best we can

assess right now, things are on track for meeting the goal we and our

members set for ourselves," Dr. Goldhammer said.

The continued gaps in disclosure have caused some lawmakers to call for new

federal laws. The bill introduced in February by Mr. Dodd and Senator

Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, would convert clinicaltrials.gov

into a national registry for both new trials and results and impose civil

penalties of up to $10,000 a day for companies that hide trial data. But Mr.

Dodd said that the chances the bill would pass in this Congress were even at

best.

"I haven't had that pat on the back saying, 'This is a great idea, let's get

going on this as fast as we can,' " Mr. Dodd said.

Dr. David Fassler, a psychiatry professor at the University of Vermont and a

longtime proponent of more disclosure, said that trial reporting had

improved in the last two years. But he said that a central federally run

site, as opposed to the current mix of government and industry efforts, was

the only long-term solution.

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Editorial

Hiding the Data on Drug Trials

Published: June 1, 2005

Any Americans gullible enough to believe that the drug industry can be

trusted to report fully on what clinical trials it is sponsoring or what

results were found must be sorely disappointed by recent developments. A

government survey determined that three of the largest drug companies have

effectively reneged on their pledges to list trials in a federal database. A

report in yesterday's Times by Alex Berenson reveals that this intransigence

also extends to a voluntary industry database. It looks as if demands from

researchers and the medical profession for full access to clinical trial

data will continue to be frustrated.

Companies already provide the data to the Food and Drug Administration,

which is required to keep much of it confidential. A public listing of

trials is important to prevent drug makers from hiding results that reflect

badly on their drugs while publishing only results that make their drugs

look good. By law, the companies are supposed to register important trials

with a government Web site. Most manufacturers are complying, but the three

big obfuscators - Merck, GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer - are often getting

around the requirement by not naming the drugs they are testing, instead

using phrases like "an investigational drug." Merck was the worst offender,

failing to provide a drug's name some 90 percent of the time. Glaxo withheld

a name 53 percent of the time, and Pfizer 36 percent of the time.

Merck and Pfizer are also the most prominent withholders of trial results

from the industry's voluntary database. As Mr. Berenson reported, Pfizer has

posted only a few results of clinical trials, and Merck has posted none.

That meager contribution appears to satisfy the weak guidelines set by the

industry, but it offers a sorry contrast with the record of Eli Lilly. Lilly

appears to have been quite scrupulous in listing its current trials with the

government site and has posted the results of hundreds of completed clinical

trials on the industry site. Surely if one big company can make its trials

transparent, other drug makers can do the same.

A coalition of medical editors has just stiffened its announcement that

leading journals will soon refuse to publish the results of any clinical

trial that has not complied with tough international standards for

transparency. That should apply useful pressure to recalcitrant companies.

But the best hammer would be federal legislation to compel all companies to

provide critical information when a trial is begun and full results when a

trial is completed, with stiff penalties for noncompliance.

Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:16:32 GMT

Being a whistle blower is risky business...at least in New Mexico...Los Alamos

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 01:00:06 GMT

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/cdngovernment/ethics.html

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 03:19:09 GMT

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In the May 31, 2005, edition of Ethics Newsline:

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1. Statline:

Public Rates Professions' Ethics

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2. Commentary by Rushworth Kidder:

Days of Remembrance

Memorial Day, the late-May U.S. holiday, coincides with school graduations and the change of seasons, blending commencement and summertime and remembrance. In one intense season of ceremony and start-of-summer storewide sales, we send forth the young, salute the dead, and celebrate the coming solstice. Is this right? In this particularly American blend of the commercial, the educational, and the military, are we dishonoring those who went before us? Are we at risk of discounting the sacrifices that helped defend the physical, mental, and moral infrastructure we've inherited?....

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3. What They're Saying:

Come to Terms

"I despised what he had done to me.... [But] you can't throw a human being away. When you see someone you have lived with, and you are so angry with them, you have to come to terms with yourself and get rid of the bitterness. Not for their sake, but for your own."

-- Millie Hayes, 67, a Louisiana antiques shop owner, talking with the "New York Times" about her decision to serve as caregiver for her ex-husband, a man described as cruel and controlling, as his health deteriorated due to Alzheimer's. As the U.S. population ages, the "Times" says healthcare workers are seeing a growing trend: "In scenes exhibiting a vivid range of feelings -- acrimony, compassion, rekindled love, abiding friendship -- sick and dying Americans are being cared for by former spouses."....

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4. U.S. Supplying Arms to Undemocratic, Oppressive Nations, Study Claims

NEW YORK

Seeking to secure military bases abroad and reward U.S. allies in the "war on terror," the United States is supplying weapons to nations deemed undemocratic and oppressive by its own State Department, a group studying arms sales warned last week....

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5. Amnesty International Slams U.S. for Human Rights Violations

WASHINGTON

Amnesty International last week lashed out at the United States over its treatment of terrorism detainees and prisoners, saying U.S. efforts to subvert international treaties against torture have made the world a more dangerous place....

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6. Treasurer of Powerful Texas PAC Fined Nearly $200,000

AUSTIN, Texas

A Texas political action committee (PAC) established by House Majority Leader Tom Delay violated campaign finance laws by failing to report nearly $700,000 in donations used to elect Republican candidates, a state judge ruled last week....

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7. Teachers Quit after Colleague is Fired for Challenging Principal

KANSAS CITY, Missouri

Seven of 10 teachers in a small Missouri school district quit their jobs last week to show support for a colleague who was fired after protesting the punishment of a fourth-grader as unsafe....

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8. Drug Firms Faulted for Continued Lack of Disclosure

NEW YORK

Citing a federal review of disclosure data, the "New England Journal of Medicine" last week accused three of the country's leading drug companies of not providing enough information about their clinical trials....

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9. Guidant Did Not Disclose Defibrillator Flaw for 3 Years

INDIANAPOLIS

Medical equipment maker Guidant Corp. last week disclosed that one of its surgically implanted defibrillators contained a flaw that could cause the device to malfunction -- news the company had known about for three years....

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10. Kenya Prosecutor Fired after Dropping Charges against Aristocrat

NAROK, Kenya

Kenya's president last week sacked a senior prosecutor for dismissing murder charges against a British aristocrat accused of killing a Maasai game warden investigating poaching....

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11. Geologist Behind Canada's Bre-X Scandal May Have Faked Death

TORONTO

A geologist at the center of one of Canada's biggest financial scandals, the fraudulent massive gold find by the former Canadian mining company Bre-X, may have faked his own death, according to press reports....

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12. Research Report:

'Public and Press Differ about Partisan Bias, Accuracy, and Press Freedom'

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania:

"The American public disapproves only narrowly of partisan journalism, splits about evenly on whether news organizations usually get their facts straight, and narrowly accepts the idea that the government can limit the right of the press to report a story, according to a national survey conducted for the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center...."

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13. Quote from the Ethics File:

My Religion

"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

-- Thomas Paine (U.S. political philosopher and author, 1737-1809)

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Wed, 25 May 2005 13:02:28 GMT

Moral Combat: Emotion and Reason. The greatest good for the greatest number of people? [Psychology Today]

Fri, 20 May 2005 16:08:32 GMT

Recently I came across some research which encourage students to

participate as research subjects and gain course credit points.

On one hand it would be educational and beneficial to the students to

understand the role of a research subject and the process of a research

being conducted. On the other hand, the researchers now have a participant

pool where recruitment can be easily conducted.

A few questions came to my mind:

How can the researchers and the REB prevent coercion to participate;

How can the rights of the student be protected;

How can a student withdraws from the research if he still need to face the

researcher as a teacher; etc?

Some very good questions to ponder under our ethics rubric.

Thu, 19 May 2005 14:19:14 GMT

Plato. "You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

Thu, 19 May 2005 14:03:58 GMT

Anxiously, Los Alamos Awaits a New Contract, and a New Era. As military contractors bid to run the government's pre-eminent nuclear arms laboratory, Los Alamos's mission is scrutinized. By By WILLIAM J. BROAD. [NYT > Science]

Thu, 19 May 2005 14:00:20 GMT

1. Statline:

Women, Minorities Still Rare on U.S. Boards, Group Says

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/16/2005&;id=05160517205195

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2. Commentary by Rushworth Kidder:

Tom DeLay and the Whatever-You-Call-It Committee

How are we to think about House Majority Leader Tom DeLay? These days, that's a more helpful question than *what* are we to think about him. Answers to the what question ooze from every media crevice inside the Beltway. But if our goal is not simply to pick sides but to make moral sense of this crossfire, we need frameworks rather than opinions....

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3. What They're Saying:

Open Discussion

"A church that cannot openly discuss issues is a church retreating into an intellectual ghetto."

-- Catholic magazine "America," in an editorial that appeared shortly after Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected to become the next pope. Last week, "America" editor Rev. Thomas Reese resigned under orders from the Vatican's office of doctrinal enforcement after reportedly falling out of favor for questioning official Catholic positions on same-sex marriage, abortion rights, and the supremacy of Catholicism. The order was issued while Ratzinger, now called Pope Benedict XVI, was head of the doctrinal office....

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4. Army to Suspend Recruiting for One-Day 'Values Stand-Down'

WASHINGTON

Following high-profile reports of serious misconduct by some of its recruiters, the U.S. Army last week said it will hold a one-day "values stand-down" to reemphasize the importance of sticking to legal and ethical standards....

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5. Task Force Begins Investigation of Proselytizing at Air Force Academy

COLORADO SPRINGS

A U.S. Defense Department task force spent three days last week at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, investigating allegations of heavy-handed Christian proselytizing by academy officers and cadets....

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6. Court Rules that Cheney Can Keep Secret Details of Energy Task Force

WASHINGTON

Vice President Dick Cheney does not have to disclose the names of energy industry insiders who helped craft the nation's energy policy, a federal appeals court ruled last week, likely ending a legal effort to enforce government transparency in the energy issue....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/16/2005&;id=05160517260627

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7. Saks Fires 3 Senior Execs over Questionable Practices

NEW YORK

Department store chain operator Saks Inc. last week announced the firing of three senior executives and an undisclosed number of managers and other workers for wrongdoing involving the overcharging of vendors....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/16/2005&;id=05160517265226

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8. Lloyds TSB Accused of Abusive Lending Practices

LONDON

British bank Lloyds TSB was accused last week of pushing massive loans onto consumers ill-qualified to repay the large sums, violating industry standards and prompting internal and regulatory investigations....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/16/2005&;id=05160517272454

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9. Europe Tackles Pay Inequity and Other HR Struggles

STRASBOURG, France

France last week witnessed a multi-pronged push to improve the rights and rewards of workers, with efforts to limit work hours, diversity the workforce, and improve pay for female employees....

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10. Study Notes Link between Obese Workers' Higher Healthcare Costs and Lower Wages

SAN FRANCISCO

Obese workers may be having their paychecks cut to cover higher healthcare costs, according to a new study of employment wages released last week by researchers from Stanford University....

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11. TV Viewers Protest Sexually Explicit Ads in Canada

TORONTO

The Globe & Mail is reporting that Canadian television viewers have bombarded the Advertising Standards Canada, an industry self-regulation body, with complaints about sexually explicit ads....

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12. Research Report:

Alliance Gauges Diversity among Fortune 100 Boards

From the Alliance For Board Diversity:

"Uniting under the common goal of increasing representation of women and minorities on corporate boards, three leadership organizations -- Catalyst, The Executive Leadership Council, and Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR) -- today announced their collaboration as the Alliance for Board Diversity and released the results of their first joint research, 'Women and Minorities on Fortune 100 Boards,' which assesses diversity in the boardrooms of the Fortune 100 companies...."

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13. Quote from the Ethics File:

Hills and Caves

"At 18, our convictions are hills from which we look; at 45, they are caves in which we hide."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald (U.S. writer, 1896-1940)

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Wed, 11 May 2005 10:13:19 GMT

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Tue, 10 May 2005 03:57:26 GMT

1. Statline:

Conflicting Signals about Being Ethical vs. Getting Ahead

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2. Guest Commentary:

1920s Redux?

Proclaiming that "the business of America is business," U.S. president Calvin Coolidge famously defined one of the basic objectives of the dozen years of Republican governance that followed the end of World War I. Seventy years later, another Republican administration champions a similar goal. Have we entered a new "Jazz Era," with all of the opportunities -- but also all of the risks -- demonstrated by the history of the 1920s?...

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3. What They're Saying:

Must be a Man

"We have no problem with women voting, but we do have a problem with women standing for elections. Islam dictates that the head of the nation must be a man, and we are technically the head of the nation here."

-- Waleed al-Tabtabae, head of the Kuwaiti Parliament's human rights committee, explaining his opposition to a measure that would have allowed women to vote in city council elections for the first time...

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4. Merck Questioned about Aggressive Vioxx Sales Tactics

WASHINGTON

The U.S. House of Representatives last week continued to hold hearings on whether drug maker Merck hid dangers when marketing its popular painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled from store shelves last year after being linked to an increased risk for heart attacks....

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5. Failing to Meet Quotas, Some Army Recruiters Turn to Cheating

COLUMBUS, Ohio

Under pressure to fill military rolls, some recruiters for the U.S. Army are breaking rules, helping potential recruits cheat, and concealing applicants' police and medical records, according to a report last week from the "New York Times."...

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6. Army Withheld Knowledge of Friendly Fire Death from Soldier's Family

WASHINGTON

Despite learning almost immediately that "friendly fire" killed a celebrated U.S. Army Ranger, the military withheld the facts from the man's family for weeks, admitting that fellow soldiers killed him only when the news was likely to be made public by returning combatants, the "Washington Post" reported last week....

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7. Palestinian Bulldozer Demolishes Top Officers' Illegal Homes

GAZA CITY

Promising to make good on his anticorruption promises, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas last week sent a bulldozer to crush the homes of three senior officers who seized their seaside house lots illegally....

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8. California High Schools Tackle Steroid Use by Students

SACRAMENTO

Increasingly concerned about steroid use by students, California high schools soon will be required to implement new policies aimed at curbing the spread of the drugs under new rules approved last week....

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9. After Losing Family In Fire, Man Faces Huge Hospital Bill

OTTAWA

Bunny Svay, a Cambodian man residing in Ottawa, was astonished to learn that he will have to pay a huge hospital bill for his medical care after a fire destroyed his apartment, killing five members of his family....

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10. Oklahoma Coach Resigns after Using Racial Epithet in Interviews

NORMAN, Oklahoma

The head baseball coach at the University of Oklahoma resigned last week after using a racial epithet, for which he apologized and was forgiven by the African-American player he had referenced....

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11. German Referee Banned for Life after Fixing Matches

BERLIN

The German Football Association (DFB) last week imposed a lifetime ban on 25-year-old referee Robert Hoyzer, who helped rig a series of matches influencing the outcome of the German Cup....

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12. Research Report:

Young People Weigh In on Competing Ethical Values

From Zogby International:

"Young Americans entering the workforce overwhelmingly value honesty and integrity, with 92 percent saying they believe that doing the right thing is more important than getting ahead in their careers -- but there is also a strong undercurrent of competing values, placing loyalty to friends, love, and getting ahead personally above honesty in business dealings...."

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13. Quote from the Ethics File:

Clods of Clay

"If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on."

-- Marie Corelli (English novelist, 1855-1924)

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Thu, 05 May 2005 16:56:23 GMT

Søren Kierkegaard: Biography of the Day.

Søren Kierkegaard, drawing by Christian Kierkegaard, 1840; in a private collection.
Courtesy of the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Søren Kierkegaard

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."
Søren Kierkegaard

Danish religious philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, born this day in 1813, was regarded as the founder of existentialist philosophy. He is famous for his critique of systematic rational philosophy, particularly Hegelianism, on the grounds that actual life cannot be contained within an abstract conceptual system. With this stance, he intended to clear the ground for an adequate consideration of faith.

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Tue, 03 May 2005 13:24:00 GMT

1. Statline:

Study Charts Murder of Journalists Worldwide

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518413092

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2. Commentary by Rushworth M. Kidder:

A Culture of Scapegoats

It's more than 6,300 miles from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to Mifflin High School in Columbus, Ohio. Both were in the news last week, reminding us that behind every scapegoat there's a failed policy....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518420210

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3. What They're Saying:

Altruistic

"This is to avoid inducements for people to do this for a profit motive. It should be an altruistic motive. This should not be a commercial activity."

-- MIT cancer researcher Richard Hynes, discussing ethics guidelines for stem cell research released last week by a panel he co-led...

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518424438

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4. Adelphia's Founding Family to Forfeit 95 Percent of Personal Assets

WASHINGTON

Adelphia Communications last week agreed to pay $715 million to resolve allegations of extensive financial fraud that led to the company's collapse in 2002, with funds going toward restitution for investors....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518431141

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5. House GOP Does About-Face on Changes to Ethics Rules

WASHINGTON

After months of taking a political beating in a dispute that has stalled ethics investigations, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives grudgingly voted last week to undo rule changes that they pushed through in January....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518434031

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6. Unable to Shake Scandal, Czech PM Resigns

PRAGUE

Succumbing to a lingering scandal over his financing of a luxury apartment, Czech Republic Prime Minister Stanislav Gross resigned last week after less than one year on the job....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518441631

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7. U.S. Government Offers $87,500 to Spurned Asylum Seeker

SAN FRANCISCO

The U.S. government last week agreed to pay $87,500 to a Kenyan woman who fled to the United States but was sent back by officials despite her fears that she would be beaten or killed upon returning to Africa....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518445174

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8. Supreme Court Turns Away POW Lawsuit, Voiding $959 Million Owed by Iraq

WASHINGTON

Former U.S. prisoners of war who were tortured by Saddam Hussein's regime during the 1991 Gulf War have no right to collect funds awarded to them in a 2002 lawsuit, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ruled last week...

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518452187

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9. Food Services Giant Sodexho Settles Racial Bias Suit for $80 Million

NEW YORK

Ending a class-action lawsuit, food services giant Sodexho Inc. agreed last week to pay $80 million to settle charges that it denied promotions and limited account offerings to black workers....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518454568

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10. Canada Launches Legal Action against Byrd Amendment in U.S. Court

NEW YORK

The Canadian government has launched a legal action in the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York against the Byrd Amendment, which allows U.S. competitors to receive duties imposed on Canadian goods by U.S. trade authorities who claim the Canadian products were unfairly subsidized or dumped in the U.S. markets....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518461787

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11. Paper Examines Pros and Cons of 'Problem-Solving Courts'

NEW YORK

In a bid to stop both crime and its underlying causes, states and cities across the country are creating a new kind of court -- part judiciary, part therapist, part social services -- according to a report last week from the "New York Times."...

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518464495

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12. Research Report:

Journalists Killed Most Often by Murder, Not Accident: Study

From the Committee to Protect Journalists:

"Murder is the leading cause of job-related deaths among journalists worldwide, and the Philippines is the most murderous country of all, a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists [CPJ] has found. Iraq, Colombia, Bangladesh, and Russia round out CPJ's list of the 'Most Murderous Countries for Journalists.'..."

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518472091

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13. Quote from the Ethics File:

What You are Acting From

"I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from."

-- William Faulkner (U.S. writer, 1897-1962)

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Sun, 01 May 2005 21:10:30 GMT

At Los Alamos, Blogging Their Discontent. A blog rebellion among scientists and engineers at Los Alamos, the federal government's premier nuclear weapons laboratory, is threatening to end the tenure of its director. By By WILLIAM J. BROAD. [NYT > Science]

Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:39:46 GMT

Ethics: Code of Conduct. Shock your sales force into ethical behavior. [Psychology Today]

Tue, 26 Apr 2005 01:43:28 GMT

1. Statline:

Public Fears Intrusive Government More Than Indecent Content: Poll

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/25/2005&;id=04250517525655

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2. Commentary by Rushworth M. Kidder:

Combating Ethical Lapses: Why Compliance Isn't the Answer

"There oughta be a law!" It's a phrase you hear more and more these days. It pops up whenever the ethical issues in the news are particularly rotten. And it's a natural response. After all, if baseball players use steroids with impunity and specialist traders on the New York Stock Exchange rip off their clients, then let's toughen up the regulations. But let me take a contrarian view....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/25/2005&;id=04250517532592

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3. What They're Saying:

Make a Difference

"All you can really do with that kind of money is give it away. There's no way you can spend it. What I'm interested in doing is setting up a medical research foundation and seeing if we can't make a difference in the world."

-- Orthopedic surgeon Gary Michelson, discussing his plans for a $1.35 billion settlement payment announced last week by Medtronic Inc. Michelson had sued Medtronic over the licensing of some of his 500-plus patents, which range from groundbreaking spinal surgery techniques to a new paper clip...

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/25/2005&;id=04250517535291

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4. KPMG Pays $22.5 Million to Settle Charges of Abetting Xerox Fraud

WASHINGTON

Accounting firm KPMG last week agreed to pay $22.5 million, including the return of four years' worth of fees, to settle allegations that the company helped Xerox Corp. hide bookkeeping fraud....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/25/2005&;id=04250517542835

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5. Papers Sever Ties with Reporters following Fabricated Stories

LOS ANGELES

Manufactured timelines, fabricated details, and lazy reporting chipped away at the reputations of two of the nation's leading newspapers last week, prompting apologies from editors caught off-guard....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/25/2005&;id=04250517545719

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6. States, Schools, and Teachers Union Rebel against Education Law

SALT LAKE CITY

The rebellion against President Bush's signature education law gained momentum last week with one state, eight school districts, and the nation's largest teachers union taking aim at what they say are unfunded and illegal mandates imposed by the federal law....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/25/2005&;id=04250517553095

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7. Air Force Academy Accused of Bullying Non-Christian Students

COLORADO SPRINGS

Still stinging from a sexual assault scandal that erupted two years ago, the U.S. Air Force Academy confronted a new ethical issue last week, saying it is struggling to correct a climate reportedly hostile to non-Christian cadets....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/25/2005&;id=04250517555898

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8. To Stop Crime, Schools Pay Students to Inform on Classmates

ATLANTA

Hoping to take a bite out of student crime, a school district in Central Georgia last week signed on with a national program that rewards students for informing on classmates who may be breaking school rules...

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/25/2005&;id=04250517562917

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9. Prominent Canadian Businessman Tied to U.N. Oil-For-Food Scandal

NEW YORK

Canadian businessman Maurice Strong, the former United Nations envoy to North Korea and a longtime adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, has been linked to a key person charged in the U.N. Oil for Food corruption scandal....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/25/2005&;id=04250517565244

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10. Government Sends Mixed Signals in Legal Dispute over Fuel Additive

WASHINGTON

The U.S. government last week sent conflicting signals on clean-up plans for a dangerous gasoline additive called MTBE, with a federal judge okaying a massive lawsuit against MTBE's makers while Congress moved to shield the industry from liability....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/25/2005&;id=0425051757234

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11. Research Report:

U.S. Public Supports Tougher Indecency Measures, with Caveats

From the Pew Research Center:

"Americans have ambivalent views about the appropriate role for government in curbing sex, violence, and indecency in the entertainment media. They have doubts about the effectiveness of government action, and believe that public pressure -- in the form of complaints and boycotts - is a better way of dealing with the problem. They also blame audiences more than the media industry for objectionable material. Significantly, Americans see greater danger in the government's imposing undue restrictions on the entertainment industry, than in the industry producing harmful content...."

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/25/2005&;id=04250517580061

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12. Quote from the Ethics File:

Lies Become Truth

"A lie told often enough becomes truth."

-- Vladimir Lenin (Russian Communist leader, 1870-1924)

Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:47:47 GMT

Psi Chi announces that at the Western Psychological Association meeting in April the following event occurred.

Invited Address. Recognized expert in intelligence and creativity research, Robert Sternberg, will delived this year's address, entitled Culture and Intelligence. At the beginning of the session, Psi Chi is expecting to publicly award both Robert Sternberg and Elizabeth Loftus , Distinguished Member status for career contributions to the field and to Psi Chi as a society. The newly recognized Distinguished Members also are expecting to be on hand immediately following the address to meet and greet students and faculty during a brief reception in the hospitality suite. Distinguished Member status is the highest honor that can be bestowed by Psi Chi, and historically, very few members have been recognized with this honor. Thus, it is a rare treat that we will be able to grant two Distinguished Members at WPA. These sessions represent a great opportunity to support the organization while simultaneously affording an opportunity to interact with recognized experts in the field. As a result, student members are strongly encouraged to attend.

Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:07:33 GMT

BTW Here is a link which will give more information on issues over the years at the University of Washington. It hasn't always been pretty.

Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:29:13 GMT

Reasons for further understanding of why there is oversight of the oversight process. Check this link out re: problems in Research at the University of Washington.

Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:02:52 GMT

In spite of good intentions, problems still arise. Check out this link and the recent problems at the University of Washington.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/health/story/4787763p-4408085c.html

Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:19:28 GMT

Firms Paid TV's Tech Gurus To Promote Their Products (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Corey Greenberg, tech editor for NBC's "Today" show, appeared last July to praise Apple's iPod as "a great portable musical player . . . the coolest-looking one" and suggested a compatible device to "share your music with other people." "This is the way to go," he declared. [Yahoo! News: Technology]

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:54:52 GMT

1. Statline:

U.S. Public Has Poor View of Oil and Tobacco Companies

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/18/2005&;id=04180522042493

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2. Commentary by Rushworth M. Kidder:

Moral Murk and the European Constitution: A Czech Morality Play

Judging from the crowds swirling through Prague Castle last month, tourism is booming in the Czech Republic. Prague no doubt owes some of its surging popularity to the Czech Republic's entrance into the European Union in 2004. The move from second-world status into equal partnership with its Western European neighbors gives extra comfort to skittish travelers. So Czechs should be fans of the EU, eager to ratify its proposed constitution, right? Until last week, it might have seemed so. Then, in a morality play on how one person's ethical fumbling can change the world, the shoe dropped....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/18/2005&;id=04180522054796

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3. What They're Saying:

A Natural Selection

"He never lost power, even though he stepped down from Boston. In any other corporation if you lost your rank and left, you'd lose your power and you'd be stripped of your title. (But) here he is in Rome, still as powerful as he was before."

-- Bernie McDaid, an alleged victim of sexual abuse by a Catholic church official, criticizing the Vatican's decision to let former Boston Cardinal Bernard Law play a prominent role in presiding over a funeral mass for Pope John Paul II...

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/18/2005&;id=04180522062110

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4. In Aggressive Move, Feds Accuse 15 NYSE Traders of Criminal Fraud

NEW YORK

Federal prosecutors last week hit 15 current and former New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) traders with criminal charges for allegedly cheating clients to enrich themselves and their employers....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/18/2005&;id=04180522065949

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5. Equitable Life Sues 15 Former Directors for $3.2 Billion

LONDON

British insurance giant Equitable Life last week filed suit against 15 of its former directors, accusing them and accounting firm Ernst & Young of negligence and breach of duty for failing to warn the firm of financial problems that nearly caused the company's collapse in 2000 ....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/18/2005&;id=04180522072783

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6. LexisNexis Says Data on 310,000 People May Have been Stolen

LONDON

Data broker LexisNexis last week revealed that thieves may have stolen personal data on 310,000 people, upping the number of potential victims tenfold from an earlier estimate and sparking renewed calls for legislated reforms....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/18/2005&;id=04180522081162

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7. Japanese Firm Admits $1.37 Billion Accounting Fraud

TOKYO

A Japanese firm being bailed out by the government revealed last week that it had inflated profits by $1.37 billion over the past four years in what may be the country's largest accounting fraud involving a non-financial firm....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/18/2005&;id=04180522085271

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8. Japan Criticizes China after Violent Demonstrations over Textbooks

BEIJING

Freedom-of-expression issues took a front seat in China last week, where the government was accused of both sanctioning and suppressing violent demonstrations. Among the developments...

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/18/2005&;id=0418052209210

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9. Holocaust Heirs Awarded Nearly $22 Million for Bank's Betrayal

BROOKLYN

A Brooklyn judge last week awarded nearly $22 million to a woman whose family was stripped of its assets by a Swiss bank during the Holocaust -- the largest payout to date under a $1.25-billion settlement....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/18/2005&;id=04180522095318

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10. Italy Rushes to Stem Violence by Soccer Fans

ROME

Saying urgent action was needed after a week of violence by soccer fans, Italian authorities last week quickly adopted a series of measures designed to punish soccer teams for their fans' misbehavior....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/18/2005&;id=04180522102753

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11. In Bid to Shine Light on Problems, Nike Discloses Locations of All Factories

BEAVERTON, Oregon

Nike Inc. last week published the names and locations of the more than 700 factories used to make the company's popular athletic shoes and apparel, conceding that working conditions are far from perfect but saying disclosure of their factory locations may enable independent observers to monitor operations....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/18/2005&;id=04180522110263

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12. CBC Says United States May Have Had Two Mad Cow Cases in 1997

WASHINGTON

The CBC has reported that the United States may have had two cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly called mad cow disease, in 1997, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture may not have performed adequate testing of the animals' brains....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/18/2005&;id=04180522113445

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13. Research Report:

U.S. Public Believes Drug Makers Put Profits Ahead of People

From the Kaiser Family Foundation:

"Americans believe prescription drugs are improving their lives, but most also say that the drug industry cares more about profits than people, according to the latest Kaiser Health Poll Report issued by the Kaiser Family Foundation...."

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/18/2005&;id=04180522121225

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14. Quote from the Ethics File:

The Worth of Honor

"I have a lantern. You steal my lantern. What, then, Is your honor worth no more to you than the price of my lantern?"

-- Epicetus (Greek stoic philosopher, ca 55 - ca 135)

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Mon, 18 Apr 2005 04:07:20 GMT

Michel de Montaigne. "I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself."

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:55:08 GMT

1. Statline:

Yale Ranks Nations by Environmental Practices

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/11/2005&;id=04110517500123

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2. Commentary by Rushworth M. Kidder:

Europe versus America: What Does 'War' Mean?

Like many Americans visiting Europe in the last several years, I've been trying to comprehend the moral roots of the current sharp political differences between Europe and the United States. Seeing a new movie about Hitler the other night with British friends, it finally hit me that however close the cultures of England and the United States may be, we were seeing the film through different eyes....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/11/2005&;id=04110517503985

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3. What They're Saying:

The Honor Code Didn't Work

"A key lesson from the recent scandals is that the checks on the system simply have not worked. The honor code among CEOs didn't work. Board oversight didn't work. Self-regulation was a complete failure. But one thing has worked: law enforcement."

-- New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, championing the role of outside regulation in a "Wall Street Journal" column last week...

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/11/2005&;id=04110517515320

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4. Testimony at Judicial Inquiry Rocks Canadian Politics

MONTREAL

A former Quebec advertising company executive, Jean Brault, has testified that he gave kickbacks and other illicit payments to officials and associates of the governing federal Liberal Party and to both the provincial Quebec Liberals and separatist Parti Quebecois in hopes of securing generous advertising contracts worth millions of dollars....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/11/2005&;id=04110517524059

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5. AIG Admits More Wrongdoing as Probes Escalate

NEW YORK

American International Group's (AIG) troubles worsened last week following admissions that the global insurance giant engaged in wide-ranging subterfuge to conceal business transactions and fraud....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/11/2005&;id=04110517532260

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6. Congress Holds Hearing on Fraud in the Nonprofit Sector

WASHINGTON

The U.S. Senate last week held a hearing on the estimated $300 billion in financial fraud and tax scams among the nation's nonprofits, warning that scandals are taking a toll on both public trust and the U.S. tax base....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/11/2005&;id=04110517540293

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7. Automakers Agree to Sharp Cuts in Canadian Emissions

WINDSOR, Ontario

In a move that could have repercussions in the United States, the Canadian government last week inked a voluntary deal with the world's largest automakers to sharply cut greenhouse gas emissions over the next five years....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/11/2005&;id=04110517544531

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8. Connecticut to Sue over Cost of 'No Child Left Behind'

HARTFORD, Connecticut

Connecticut last week announced that it will sue the U.S. government for allegedly under-funding the demands imposed by testing requirement in President Bush's controversial No Child Left Behind education law....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/11/2005&;id=0411051755294

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9. Amnesty International Releases Report on Executions in 2004

LONDON

Contending that the death penalty is an unfair and anachronistic form of punishment, Amnesty International last week released a report charting a nevertheless near-record level of nearly 3,800 executions last year....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/11/2005&;id=04110517562194

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10. MLB Announces First Suspension for Steroids

TAMPA BAY, Florida

Tampa Bay Devil Rays center fielder Alex Sanchez last week became the first player in Major League Baseball (MLB) to be suspended for steroid use, though he denied knowingly using banned substances....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/11/2005&;id=04110517571515

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11. Studies Chart the Perks of Being Pretty

ST. LOUIS

It apparently does pay to be pretty, according to two recent studies that found slim and attractive people tend to earn more money, hold higher workplace rank, and get treated better in the marketplace....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/11/2005&;id=04110517580090

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12. Research Report:

Nations Get Graded on Environmental Practices

From the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy:

"Finland ranks first in the world in environmental sustainability out of 146 countries, according to the latest Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) produced by a team of environmental experts at Yale and Columbia Universities...."

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/11/2005&;id=04110517583393

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13. Quote from the Ethics File:

The War for Freedom

"The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our government."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt (U.S. humanitarian, writer, and wife of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, 1884-1962)

Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:35:46 GMT

Journal Articles as Marketing: Tricks of The Trade. Journal Articles as Marketing: Tricks of The Trade It probably comes as little surprise to most readers that manufacturer-sponsored research is more likely to yield an outcome favorable to the sponsored product than similarly designed non-sponsored research. What may be surprising is that there is actually a good-sized body of published research (non-sponsored, of course!) on this [...] [World of Psychology]