Ethics & Research

“Researchers must be warned not to ‘balance’ ethics and medicine, for that would mean one can pursue even research that one knows is unethical—if the potential medical benefit is great enough. The researchers who conducted the Tuskegee syphilis experiment on...

Nuclear Waste

“It is irresponsible to go for- ward and build new reactors if you haven’t solved the waste problem,” – Allison Macfarlane, Chair of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2012-2014

Public Speaking

“The average person attending a funeral “would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.” – Jerry Seinfeld

Complaints

People complain as if the complaints are evidence of being offended. They have taken offense, certainly, but that is not the same thing as being offended. Likely enough, the only offense is in taking offense. Those who complain must identify what it is that they...