Google and Violating Patients’ Privacy: It’s Worse Than It Appears

Posted: November 27, 2019
By: R. J. Snell, Ph.D.

Even though the phrase “do no harm” doesn’t actually appear in the Hippocratic Oath, there’s something Hippocratic about Google’s “unofficial motto” and corporate conduct code, “don’t be evil.” Or, at least, until Google jettisoned the phrase from its code in … Read

The Immorality of Happiness?

Posted: November 21, 2019
By: R. J. Snell, Ph.D.

Many of the debates in bioethics are really about competing visions of happiness. For example, if happiness is a mental-emotional state of good-feeling, then negative or bad feelings are tantamount to unhappiness, and an ethical system which forbids actions which … Read

Alternative Aims of Science: How Agendas Harm the Suffering

Posted: October 1, 2019
By: Frank J. Moncher, Ph.D.

When a scientific journal of a vaunted organization such as the American Medical Association (AMA) publishes research, there is a natural tendency to consider the findings to be reliable, valid and worthy of one’s attention and consideration. But as in … Read

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