When is Cheating not a Disgrace? :: Fox&Hounds

The board of the institute should be ashamed. Would the professors who are on the board grant a doctorate to a candidate who cheated in his dissertation? Would the retired businessmen on the board keep an operating officer who lied to obtain a competitor’s secrets? Would the former government regulators give the benefit of the doubt to a business that lied to obtain a permit?

Informed and even strident debate is good for science, and it’s good for public policy. The Pacific Institute has sent a very different message: The ends justifiy the means.

Kaiser Permanente: We’ll be ready for the inevitable climate-change-based downfall of society | Grist

...your local hospital is prepared to treat you after near-inevitable insect-borne disease outbreaks, flooding, and war. Might as well just check yourself in there for the duration.

Rio+20 summit: activists aren't mourning Barack Obama's absence | Environment | guardian.co.uk

From My Cold Dead Hand: Swedish Pols Want to Outlaw Stand-Up Urination - Hit & Run : Reason.com