An analysis from the University of Chicago finds more similarities than differences in the morals driving atheists and believers in God, challenging the notion of the amoral atheist.
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A study which will expose volunteers to the coronavirus is to begin in Britain within a month after it gained approval from the country’s clinical ethics body, the government said on Wednesday.
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Civil rights lawyers say the Oakland Police Department’s reluctance to investigate troubling social media posts with suspected links to its officers represents a “cataclysmic failure of judgment and leadership.”
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On his way out the door, the outgoing president lifted a five-year lobbying ban that he proudly adopted four years ago.
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Studying the appetite for gene editing around the world, Pew reported Thursday that the controversy over so-called designer babies becomes less pronounced when the same tools are used to fight disease or infertility.
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Thailand’s highest court on Wednesday acquitted Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha of breaching ethics clauses in the country’s constitution, allowing him to stay in his job.
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The BBC’s board of directors has approved the appointment of a retired senior judge to lead an independent investigation into the circumstances around a controversial 1995 TV interview with Princess Diana.
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A controversial French professor who touts the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment — without evidence, scientists say — will appear before a disciplinary panel charged with ethics breaches, an order of doctors said Thursday.
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The former boss of Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm brought down by a scandal over how it obtained Facebook users’ private data, has been banned from holding company directorships for seven years.
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A Pittsburgh museum decided a dramatic diorama that has been on display for more than a century should remain out of public view while it considers ethical issues about its accuracy and appropriateness.
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In a bid to assuage safety misgivings in the public imagination, nine drug company CEOs signed a rare pledge Tuesday attesting to strict ethical standards and scientific principles being followed in work on the coronavirus vaccine.
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Members of Generation Z have numerous distinctions: first digital natives, pro-government, more racially and ethnically diverse and better educated than previous generations. But they’re not interested in eating meat grown in a laboratory.
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It’s still too soon to try to make genetically edited babies because the science isn’t advanced enough to ensure safety, says an international panel of experts who also mapped a pathway for any countries that want to consider it.
Read moreThe Montana Supreme Court ruled that the state’s political practices agency was justified in dismissing an ethics complaint that claimed the agency’s deputy made statements to a radio station that constituted election advocacy. The high court found that the statements could reasonably be interpreted as a defense of a state statute.
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Orange County’s district attorney and sheriff must face a lawsuit seeking to end a jailhouse informant program in operation for decades after a California appeals court panel unanimously ruled Wednesday that a group of county residents have sufficient taxpayer and public interest standing to bring their claims forward.
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The House of Representatives on Friday issued a formal reprimand of Arizona Republican David Schweikert, who admitted a day before to 11 violations of congressional spending rules.
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China on Tuesday issued Tuesday draft rules to toughen oversight of hundreds of thousands of foreign teachers, who cna be fired for “words and deeds” considered harmful to the country’s sovereignty.
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Forty lobbyists with ties to President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than $10 billion in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose work violates Trump’s own ethics policy, according to a report.
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