transparecy v. secrecy in the wikileaks era

i find this interesting: animal experimentation and a veil of privacy in the wikileaks era: in the future there will be total transparency for all things including violations of human and animal dignity.

i got ethics for dummies from the library day.   which may help me understand why i am unethical for loving animals and open-ness and internet and honesty. 

i do not plan on any further tech demos. but we'll see how my conscience treats me.  it has been so demanding lately.

just incidentally, i link to the ELF and the ALF on my main arts blog braingarbage.  i do this to protest the AETA and all free speech restrictions.

i am fascinated by the point at which my free speech becomes restricted to protect federally funded deviant animal abuse.

my sense of ethics balks at the attempt to coerce me in to whitewashing OHSU's animal welfare act violations, electrical genital stimulation of primates for forced ejaculate, and incarceration of the beautiful beings.

jane goodall is such a hero to me.

she is opposed to testing on higher primates and is a long term vegetarian.

just for 
Dear Colleagues,
Immediately below I reiterate our BIOMEDICAL ETHICS (PHL. 481/581) CLASS PRIVACY POLICY. This notice applies to 
all students in this class. Please take particular notice of the addition of  item #1 which forbids recording with any sort of device 
(tape, laptop, cell phone etc. ).

BIOMEDICAL ETHICS (PHL. 481/581) CLASS PRIVACY POLICY

1). All RECORDING DEVISES ARE FORBIDDEN. TO OBTAIN THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OF A
CONVERSATION BY MEANS OF ANY DEVICE, CONTRIVANCE, MACHINE OR APPARATUS WHETHER
ELECTRICAL MECHANICAL, MANUAL, OR OTHERWISE IS FORBIDDEN.

2).  I have mentioned to you previously (DURING OUR FIRST CLASS MEETING AND BY EMAIL)
that the whole point of our Biomedical Ethics course (PHL. 481/581) is to provide each 
of you with a safe place in which you may freely and critically examine,
explore and reflect upon your own ideas relevant to the variety of topics
and cases which we address throughout our fall term Monday evening
meetings.

3). In order to maintain a 'safe place' in our classroom for each of us -- being 
mindful of the principle of  'respect for persons'-- we will hold our conversations as 
confidential in precisely the same way which we do when we work with other
bioethicists, clinicians, patients, family members when we conduct an 
'Ethics Consult Service'  where we address issues relevant to patients in clinical practice 
or in the hospital. The 'principle' of respecting confidentiality is an essential
part of the practice of medicine.

4). Furthermore, we owe respect to our guest speakers. The clinicians, researchers, lawyers and 
professors who so generously take time from their busy schedules to visit our class and share 
their expertise with you well understand the importance of the work to which you aspire. 
Our guests trust that their conversations with you and with each other will remain private and 
confidential.

-- 
Patricia Backlar, Research Associate Professor of Bioethics 
Department of Philosophy Portland State University 
POB 751 Portland OR 97207 
503/725 -3499 (voice) 503/725-3693 (fax) 503/703-4405 (cell) 
backlarp@pdx.edu (email)
http://www.pdx.edu/philosophy/patricia-backlar 
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