Tag: Ethical question
Is it unethical to give your cat catnip?
Debra Merskin, University of Oregon
As the Christmas season gets underway thoughts turn to buying gifts for the entire family. For some, companion animals...
3 ethical reasons for vaccinating your children
Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Across the country, billboards are popping up suggesting that vaccines can kill children, when the science behind vaccination...
Americans spend $70 billion on pets, and that money could do...
Sandra Woien, Arizona State University
Sylar, the border collie, has his own mansion along with a trampoline and indoor pool. The dog’s adorable features, along...
Is it immoral to watch football?
Francisco Javier López Frías, Pennsylvania State University and Cesar R. Torres, The College at Brockport, State University of New York
For a large swath of...
Images of suffering can bring about change – but are they...
Alison Dundes Renteln, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
In a series of provocative photographs, poor children in India...
Want to live longer? Consider the ethics
John K. Davis, California State University, Fullerton
Life extension – using science to slow or halt human aging so that people live far longer...
What philosophers have to say about eating meat
Joan McGregor, Arizona State University
WeWork, a co-working and office space company, recently made a company policy not to serve or reimburse meals that include...
Is bigger really better?
Alexandra Staub, Pennsylvania State University
The United States is facing a housing crisis: Affordable housing is inadequate, while luxury homes abound. Homelessness remains a persistent...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
