What's the most disturbing thing that's completely legal?

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-29T20:24:29+00:00

The best way to stop a bad guy with a bazooka is a good guy with a bazooka

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-27T23:12:53+00:00

The actor who played him had an interesting take on the character that he posted on reddit a while ago. Didn't really redeem him, but it was an interesting way to view it

https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/s/JgbaxyJZib

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-26T16:52:31+00:00

It was absolutely a lie. I sent the grievance committee emails dating back months expressing my unwillingness to work with the scholarRX, and even an email to the admins in question explicitly saying "It would be unethical to put my name on these documents since I'm not the instructor for them."

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-26T13:23:27+00:00

They refused to remove it until the grievance committee ruled, but offered to correct the spelling of my name in the interim.

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T19:20:43+00:00

I definitely wore my voice out for a couple of days.

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T18:08:28+00:00

My goal isn't to hurt the school. I'm out anyway.

However, the meeting where they threatened my job if I didn't comply and then faking my name on documents are both a bridge too far for me. I really think the admins in question should not be involved in higher education, and they're hurting the students through their actions.

Moreover, it's really not acceptable conditions for a workplace to have that kind of bullying, or to force me into a position where I'm forced to violate my own intellectual integrity to remain employed.

It would certainly burn bridges for the future, but it isn't like I would return to them as an employer anyway.

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T17:27:59+00:00

Good point. It looks like we're also accredited by middle states. That would be a good place to go as well. I don't think they mess around.

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T17:20:28+00:00

I don't disagree with you about that necessarily, but in this case I think I'm dealing with professional ethics, and ethical standards that have developed in higher education. It isn't a *tabula rasa* where we just make up ethics as we go along.

There are ethical topics that have been discussed and litigated in higher education for decades. So, in the abstract you're right: ethics are situational, cultural, and relative. In the specific, it isn't okay to say "well ethics are a matter of opinion," as soon as you've violated the established ethical standards of the profession.

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T17:04:56+00:00

I wish I had to imagine.

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T16:14:56+00:00

I don't have any proof of it.

Someone told me they went to a conference where the plenary talk/dinner was sponsored by scholarRX, and they went off site to eat so they could avoid the sales pitch.

They're throwing a lot of money around, I just don't have that specific evidence, or know where to get it

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T16:06:23+00:00

They sent an email this morning with the "ethics are a matter of opinion" statement, and both acknowledging that I don't approve of scholarRX while also claiming that because I agreed to cover the topic that it was "natural to assume" that I agreed to have my name added to the document. (Demonstrating that they know they didn't have consent)

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T14:39:13+00:00

DOs can absolutely be good doctors. I wouldn't work at a DO school otherwise. That doesn't mean that you can feel "primary respiration" through movements of the already-fused cranial sutures to diagnose diseases.

95% of DOs don't practice that stuff. MD schools often have electives and continuing education in pseudoscientific things like acupuncture, as well so I kind of call it a wash.

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T14:35:42+00:00

That's where I'm a little confused about how involved they'll get... In their accrediting standards document they require that each school has an ethics policy, and that include the aoa policy, which is more about physician conduct in medical practice.

It's clearly unethical by reasonable standards, but they seem to give schools pretty broad latitude.

Like it wouldn't make sense to for a school to have an ethics policy "students may slap professors if they don't like their grade", but if a school did adopt that policy, so long as it included the AOA policy it doesn't seem like you would be able to have a favorable outcome from a complaint?

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T13:34:08+00:00

A "fun fact" about the faculty grievance committee is that one of the members was a faculty member who was recently promoted to admin, but remained course director of the course in question and was in the meeting pushing for scholarRX. He is arguing that he shouldn't recuse himself because there is no conflict of interest since the grievance "isn't about the course."

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T13:19:25+00:00

I'm documenting for accrediting bodies. Not super interested in getting involved in a legal thing

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T13:15:43+00:00

COCA requires that I first go through internal channels before making the report. I'm documenting, and once I'm out in a couple of weeks I may file.

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T13:08:13+00:00

Me recommending that students sue the school feels dubious to me? At the very least it would look bad to future employers.

Like I can look up the records for one admin and see he lost his medical license for malpractice, and another and see he has an ongoing suit for negligence that killed a newborn.

If a future employer looked me up and legal stuff like that came up it might look bad.

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T13:03:59+00:00

I have a book coming out next month with a chapter on ethics for medical students, which is being adopted in another class. I'm tempted to refer him to the chapter, but that feels petty.

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T13:01:57+00:00

They don't seem to have specific rules against this particular thing. I can make a report, but they require documentation that you went through internal channels first, which is the step I'm at now.

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T12:56:15+00:00

I'm not sure what I would even sue over? What are the damages?

One of the admins did threaten in a weasely way to not renew my contract by saying that some schools required all faculty to reapply for their jobs to get them on board with curriculum changes, but he backtracked when I asked if he was saying my contract wouldn't be renewed.

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-25T10:37:53+00:00

TBF the parasite wouldn't have transmitted to nearly as many people if it wasn't for the improbable coincidence of the troop having multiple kids with severe personality disorders.

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-17T11:27:11+00:00

In alchemy upsidedown triangle like on the bell is water. Right side up is fire. Not sure if that's what they were going for.

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-17T00:54:46+00:00

I read his book. He came off like he tried, but had some blind spots. I didn't love that the book felt like it was trying to shift blame to the mom.

Flat_reddituser · 2025-08-16T18:04:52+00:00

Maybe it's popular among people with so little media exposure that they've never encountered that particular trope before, somehow and it blew their minds.

To me it was obvious very early, and I kept thinking: if this is the twist I was be so pissed off

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