If the blue-panel review recommends changes, the Department of Health and Human Services could, however, craft its own regulation for NIH, as the Food and Drug Administration has done for its employees, noted HHS ethics counsel Edgar Swindell.
Peggy Kerns, director of the Center for Ethics in Government at the National Conference of State Legislatures, noted that ethics laws are shaped by the environment and culture of the state.
He notes an ethics commission in the United Kingdom has pronounced this kind of research ethical, and the OHSU research was sanctioned by an internal review board.
But he noted that the Ethics Board had already "found her guilty, and I see that as a censure".
Stephen Gillers, a professor at the New York University law school who specializes in legal ethics, noted that the code of conduct for the federal judiciary states that "a judge should avoid public comment on the merits of a pending or impending action".
Moreover, as noted above, virtue ethics does not have to be neo-Aristotelian.
Noddings has noted that "care ethics" does not support absolute pacifism, since care-givers may in rare circumstances kill in order to defend those they love.
Turning to the broader community, Cupich pointed out that centuries ago Greek philosopher Aristotle, in the Nicomachean Ethics, "noted that friendships are needed for the growth of civilization.
noted that government ethics rules would bar Clayton from participating in any enforcement activity against a company that he previously represented as a lawyer ― or any company that chose to be represented by Sullivan & Cromwell in a future dispute with the SEC.
