Tag: ethics

We may not have a COVID-19 vaccine, but who will even get it when we do?

The “United States and its allies exploited other nations’ gullibility for years, taking their money and stealing their secrets.”

Donald Cline justified his deception with choice bible verses, so that makes everything okay.

A clone is not a clone, it’s a twin born at a different time — one that is only ever about 85 percent the same as the original.

Mike Monteiro thinks more designers should refuse to move fast and break things.

Katie Kilkenny interviews S-Town host Brian Reed on ethics and his approach to reporting on the popular investigative podcast.

On the uncertain fate of our bodily remains.

The climber’s code of ethics, issued by the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation, specifies “helping someone in trouble has absolute priority over reaching goals we set for ourselves in the mountain.” Most take this to heart. “Saving one life is more important than summiting Everest 100 times,” says Serap Jangbu Sherpa, the first person to climb all […]

“It didn’t need to exist. And that was not something that occurred to me in the process of reporting.” Out of everyone who read an early draft of “Dr. V’s Magical Putter,” only Caleb Hannan’s wife asked him the most critical question of all: Did this story even need to exist? Hannan spoke publicly for […]

Empathy, the word Lee Hancock murmured that morning, is more difficult. Because empathy requires that we approach our subjects from the inside. We try to enter into the emotions, thoughts, the very lives of those we write about. We try to imagine what it must be like to be them. Only by living in their […]