Science and technology continue to suffer the adverse judgment of the public opinion as a consequence, among other causes, of communication policies designed to hide responsibilities of high management, executives, and governments.
Examples of these (perceived) hidden responsibilities that we witnessed included checking when a patient who received antihypertensive drugs had last had a blood pressure check and confirming that the reading was acceptable; deciding whether a patient taking antidepressants needed to be seen; and whether to alert a doctor to under-use of antipsychotic drugs (box).
He's now, personally (no, you cannot hide this responsibility in a company), responsible for what people do with that design over in foreign countries.
Regardless, the big contrast with the "tough decision" to torture is that everyone responsible for doing it ran and hid from responsibility.
"He wasn't hiding from responsibility.
"Mr. Pataki can't hide from responsibility".
There is no hiding from responsibility in a media age that makes clear, through instant polling, where the public stands.
"To try to hide from responsibility by creating yet another committee for yet another study is putting paper before the safety of children, and it's inexcusable".
Mr. Pataki can't hide from responsibility for these units, which were established on his watch, in 1996, when the state needed more places to send patients being discharged from psychiatric hospitals.
In a letter to the chair of the council, Liz Forgan, he accuses Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, of cutting the Arts Council's budget by 30% "in a shabby attempt to hide from responsibility for the cumulative impact" of other cuts.
