When they think of "Ethics" most people think of the traditional definition: "a system of moral principles governing the appropriate conduct for a person or group". Normally we think "appropriate conduct" is conduct which is "good" or "helps" or is "honorable", etc. But it seems the executives of the pharmaceutical company Merck have a different way of looking at "appropriate conduct". To Merck executives conduct is "appropriate" if it leads to making billions of dollars no matter the cost in human lives:
New England Journal of Medicine accuses Merck of deleting important Vioxx information from study
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