Research, please forgive us. Our relationship with you is clearly dysfunctional. We proclaim to the world how much we care about you, yet we fail to treat you with the respect you deserve. We value you conditionally, listening only when you tell us what we want to hear. We sneak behind your back even while [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Abusing Research
Posted in Ethics on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Giving up plastic
Posted in Ethics on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BBC journalist Christine Jeavans is giving up plastic for the whole of August. She will not be buying or accepting anything which contains plastic or is packaged in plastic. Before the challenge, Jeavans collected a month’s worth of my plastic waste, which amounted to 603 items! England alone throws away 58 billion items – 1.5 [...]
