Tag Archives: 'ethics'

• Ghostwriter

  You’ve got to hand it to Merck. Not only was the drug Vioxx rushed to market, lacking adequate trials and research, in a pure effort to pile-on profits (amid questionable marketing tactics), the research studies that were written on the deadly drug were ghostwritten. Now that is how you streamline operations and trim costs. And [...]

• In the News… Rove.

  - The executives of the company that nearly leveled the city of Buffalo (and bankrupted the Buffalo Sabres hockey team) are finally headed to prison. – Karl Rove, the GOP genius, “leaves a lame-duck president suffering from low approval ratings, an unpopular war in Iraq and public rejection in the 2006 elections.“ – And even [...]

• In the News… Bush, Protected by AT&T, Goes Ape over Easy Money, to the Ire of Iowa and New Hampshire.

  - Bush on the attorney general. “Why would I hold somebody accountable who’s done nothing wrong?” Bush must be thinking of someone else. – New research “discredits that iconic illustration of human evolution that begins with a knuckle-dragging ape and ends with a briefcase-carrying man,” but what it does not do, is support creationism. Using [...]

• In the News

  - With the ethics reform bill passed through Congress, the lobbyists ability to gift an elected official has been made tougher, however, “[lobbyists] can still throw political fund-raisers.“ – Congress signing off on the eavesdropping position, it is clear that Bush’s tough-on-terrorism stance still frightens democrats in Washington. – Britain’s (new) Prime Minister Gordon Brown [...]

• Bush, Abramoff Together (Finally)

  The long-lost photograph of President Bush with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff has finally surfaced… Image: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

• A Lack Of Ethics

  With profits soaring in the business world — including for companies that do nothing, except invest in other companies that do things well (or poorly) — I am reminded of some schooling I received at Syracuse. As an engineering student, I had decided to take a few extra courses and get a minor or two. [...]