1. My group in Ethics was suppose to present May 28. However, we found out May 26 that the BBC documentary was based on falsified evidence. Gah. So the professor thankfully gave us a week's extension. We presented yesterday on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. I had learned about it in my Psychology "Research Methods and Design" back at Beloit. It's ( Read more... )

The topic was ethical relativism. The professor showed us the first part of an AlJazeera English Witness program in 2009 covering bride kidnappings in Krygyzstan.

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In the beginning several men talked of kidnapping a woman previously and one of the woman's relative told them:

"A girl is like a foal.  She's seen nothing in life... Of course, when ( Read more... )