I am looking for articles/books/etc on the ethics of communication. A specific example of this is “Dr. Fauci said something during the pandemic that contained less nuance than he knew the issue contained, but he suspected that going full-nuance would discourage COVID vaccines.” The general concept is consequentialism, and the specific concept is medical ethics, but I guess I’m looking for treatments of such ethics that are somewhere in between on the generality-specificity spectrum.
Are you sure that’s actually the complaint that people made with Fauci?
Practically, you can’t give a media interview without approaching complex issues with less nuance than the issue contains. If you try, the journalist will explain to you that you have to make things less complex for them.
That’s however very different from the CDC being unwilling to share the raw data about vaccine impacts because they believe that having the raw data will give ammunition to vaccine skeptics. Fauci is not responsible for the CDC so that’s not a complaint to be made against him.
If you want to look into issues with Fauci, I would expect that it’s useful to go more into the specifics of the complaint than “Fauci didn’t speak with enough nuance”.
If you look at the medical ethics literature, I would suspect that looking for the ethics of nudging would contain interesting thoughts on the general principles.
I am looking for articles/books/etc on the ethics of communication. A specific example of this is “Dr. Fauci said something during the pandemic that contained less nuance than he knew the issue contained, but he suspected that going full-nuance would discourage COVID vaccines.” The general concept is consequentialism, and the specific concept is medical ethics, but I guess I’m looking for treatments of such ethics that are somewhere in between on the generality-specificity spectrum.
Are you sure that’s actually the complaint that people made with Fauci?
Practically, you can’t give a media interview without approaching complex issues with less nuance than the issue contains. If you try, the journalist will explain to you that you have to make things less complex for them.
That’s however very different from the CDC being unwilling to share the raw data about vaccine impacts because they believe that having the raw data will give ammunition to vaccine skeptics. Fauci is not responsible for the CDC so that’s not a complaint to be made against him.
If you want to look into issues with Fauci, I would expect that it’s useful to go more into the specifics of the complaint than “Fauci didn’t speak with enough nuance”.
If you look at the medical ethics literature, I would suspect that looking for the ethics of nudging would contain interesting thoughts on the general principles.