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...past three months about 20 sites have been inspected according to an Office on Information Technology official Dr Henry Mosher, charged with eye inspection said he has certified about five cases needing correction because of VDT work...
...dismayed by the naiveté of some of your readers who wrote defending Steven Mosher, the Stanford anthropologist expelled for publishing photographs of forced abortions in rural China [April 4]. An anthropologist has a responsibility to the people he studies not to put them in a position where they can suffer physical harm for any information they have given him. When Mosher took no precautions in his article to protect the identities of the Chinese he interviewed, he showed an insensitivity to their welfare. The university was right to expel him. Well done, Stanford. Richard Mack Jr. Hollis...
Your readers' letters in support of Steven Mosher were unfair. Americans always use their ethical standards to judge other cultures. Forced abortion is inhuman, but the native Chinese view of abortion is different from ours. As an anthropologist, Mosher should have known this. He got what he deserved. Stan Siao Ann Arbor, Mich. Gorgeous Hunks...
...expulsion of Steven Mosher from Stanford points up the growing division between academics and their ethics. With the Mosher case in mind, a professor can now say to a student: Go off and do independent research, but if you happen to see something that is wrong, remember that your field is not "values" or "justice." Above all, keep in mind that the area must be kept open for future independent researchers. Because of Mosher, anthropology may suffer a great loss in China. Because of Stanford's reaction, one wonders if anthropology as a discipline of study has not suffered...
...Steven Mosher may not be regarded by the educational community as blameless, but perhaps humanity outweighs academic etiquette. We hardly have a free scholarly environment when a man of Mosher's integrity and compassion must bury his knowledge in obscure periodicals for fear of unleashing public outrage...