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This "blog post" is a bit different from the later blog posts, as it will be completed individually (you'll meet your groups next week!) and you will submit text to Canvas rather than actually creating a blog post. However, just as in future weeks, your text should be a response to one of the suggested topics.
Please construct your response so that it considers at least two perspectives of the issue, and then choose your position on the issue and defend it. Each of these pieces should consist of approximately 100 words, for a total of no more than 300 words.
In constructing your post, you do want to cite your sources, and you also are expected to find at least one source additional to the ones you are provided. You are welcome to link to any relevant media (articles, videos, etc.).
We do expect professional presentation: your spelling and grammar should be correct---you should not be using text shorthand or emojis.
The Ethics Centre has blog posts that may be useful as examples--they are often longer than your requirement, though. One good example is "Why Victims Remain Silent... and Then Find Their Voice".
For this blog post, please consider the case of Andrew Wakefield, who was a doctor in Britain. In 1998, he published a paper linking the MMR vaccine to autism---a paper that was retracted in 2010 and ultimately caused Mr. Wakefield to lose his medical license. Consider how his actions have caused ripples through the international community from then to now. Consider how he might have found his actions justified, and consider where his reasoning was faulty. You may find the following resources useful:
Note that all of the articles should be freely available to you. From on-campus, access should be automatic. From off campus, you'll need to go through the UT library's proxy system. If you need help doing that, please post to Piazza.