Saturday, January 3, 2026

Should more professional societies condemn some of their members?

 Robert Reich posed the question on his substack:

Ethics Shmethics
Why are America’s most powerful professional associations silent in the face of professional disgraces in the Trump regime?

Robert Reich 

"Hell, if the American Economic Association can permanently ban Harvard economist (and former treasury secretary) Larry Summers for conduct “fundamentally inconsistent with its standards of professional integrity” (Summers had repeatedly asked Jeffrey Epstein for advice on Summers’s pursuit of a younger economist), surely the American Bar Association should ban Lindsey Halligan, and the American Medical Association, Vinay Prasad.

"Where are the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association during Trump’s unscrupulous reign?

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