unethical

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On another program, when Colombia’s most seasoned female television anchor asked him to explain how he could morally defend certain underworld figures, he shot back: “Not everything that is immoral or unethical is illegal.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Renner added that “any employee who does not abide by our code of conduct, or who is found to be participating in unethical or illegal activity, can no longer be employed by our statewide organization.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

According to reporting from Politico, at least one travel-related company declined to sponsor the venture after concluding it was unethical.

From Salon • May 18, 2026

“If the point was to say that gambling apps are addictive, it makes it even more unethical; there was no purpose other than to get people to read the story.”

From Slate • May 5, 2026

Later that year, a Harvard anesthesiologist named Henry Beecher published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that Southam’s research was only one of hundreds of similarly unethical studies.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot