{"id":1840,"date":"2012-06-12T16:01:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2012-06-12T16:01:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:01:23","slug":"congratulations-peter-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2012\/06\/12\/congratulations-peter-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Peter Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post to note that Peter Singer has been made a Companion of the Order of Australia &#8211; which is, apparently, the Aussie equivalent of a KBE.\u00a0 The right-wing press <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/in-depth\/queens-birthday-honours-2012\/award-for-singer-madness\/story-fne95kwp-1226391654246\">ain&#8217;t happy<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; but irrespective of whether or not you agree with his claims, or his methods, Singer&#8217;s contribution to bioethics (and ethics more widely) is\u00a0undeniable.\u00a0 And since it&#8217;s not the role of the academy to say things that&#8217;ll make people happy, the fact that he has a record of saying things that <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> make people happy says nothing about his deserving the award.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/leiterreports.typepad.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/australia-honors-singer-murdoch-press-unhappy.html\">Brian Leiter<\/a>.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post to note that Peter Singer has been made a Companion of the Order of Australia &#8211; which is, apparently, the Aussie equivalent of a KBE.\u00a0 The right-wing press ain&#8217;t happy\u00a0&#8211; but irrespective of whether or not you agree with his claims, or his methods, Singer&#8217;s contribution to bioethics (and ethics more [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2012\/06\/12\/congratulations-peter-singer\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,1543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-the-academy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}