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Worse, some studies use procedures that would probably not pass ethical scrutiny in Britain, and the most dramatic claims often appear in unrefereed conference proceedings or obscure journals.

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The president's son - in - law just lost his top - secret clearance and, under increasing ethical scrutiny, is said to be «paranoid» about who's leaking against him.

Preventing the transmission of inherited genetic diseases, and increasing food production rates in farmed animals are two potential applications of genome editing technologies that require urgent ethical scrutiny, according to a new report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

«The ethical, legal, and social issues in genetic and genomic testing have been subject to special scrutiny for several reasons,» Jeffery R. Botkin, MD, MPH, chief of the division of medical ethics and humanities in the department of internal medicine at the University of Utah.

Although different theories of distributive justice would reach different conclusions about what «fairness» requires quantitatively, most of the positions taken by opponents of climate change policies fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny given the huge differences in emissions levels between high and low emitting nations and the enormity of global emissions reductions needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

Although reasonable disagreements exist about what equity and justice requires of nations in setting their INDCs as demonstrated by numerous proposed equity frameworks discussed by the recent IPCC chapter in the 5th Assessment Report on equity (IPCC, 2014, chapter 4), the national commitments that are based upon national economic interests alone clearly fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny.

Although different theories of distributive justice would reach different conclusions about what «fairness» requires quantitatively, most of the positions taken by opponents of climate change policies fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny given the huge differences in emissions levels between high and low emitting nations and individuals and the enormity of global emissions reductions needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.

As we have explained in considerable detail before, these excuses utterly fail to withstand minimum ethical scrutiny.

Many positions of governments on climate change fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny yet ethics and justice issues are largely being ignored in discussions of climate change policies at least in the United States.

In addition, the positions actually taken by nations on these issues in the negotiations utterly fail any reasonable ethical scrutinIn addition, the positions actually taken by nations on these issues in the negotiations utterly fail any reasonable ethical scrutinin the negotiations utterly fail any reasonable ethical scrutiny.

Also despite the fact that the positions that the United States and several other countries have frequently taken in Internationale climate negotiations have clearly flunked minimum ethical scrutiny, the US media has largely ignored the ethical and justice issues raised by the US response to climate change.

Although as we have seen what fairness requires is a matter about which different ethical theories might reach different conclusions, a claim by almost any nation in the top 80 percent of global per capita emissions that it is already below its fair share of safe global emissions is highly unlikely to pass scrutiny on the basis of any conceivable ethically theory.

«Integrity» in the DOJ's Code recognizes that government lawyers must «uphold the highest ethical standards» which «bear the closest public scrutiny.»

They are instrumental in managing an organization's incoming payments which is why they are hired following much scrutiny — the need to hire ethical and honest people is essential in this position due to the involvement of money.

3.11 All research carried out by family therapists that involves clients must be done in careful consideration of the ethical implication for all parties, and should be subjected to outside scrutiny, where possible through local ethical committees.

Carmax, I like them too, but dealing in personal property and real property are two different worlds from a legal and ethical standpoint, sales can be sales, but real estate sales are under greater scrutiny.