Fostering Medical Students’ Commitment to Beneficence in Ethics Education by Philip Reed, Joseph Caruana

“… PHOTO ID 121339257© Designer491| Dreamstime.com ABSTRACT When physicians use their clinical knowledge and skills to advance the well-being of their patients, there may be apparent conflict between patient autonomy and physician beneficence. We are skeptical that today’s medical ethics education adequately fosters future physicians’ commitment to beneficence, which is both rationally defensible and fundamentally consistent with patient autonomy. …”
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Evolutionary explanations and the debunking of moral beliefs by Cofnas, N

“…Therefore (the debunkers say) we ought to be skeptics about moral realism. Huemer counters that "moral progress"—the cross-cultural convergence on liberalism—cannot be explained by debunking arguments. …”

Interpretation and Analysis of Majnoon Personality based on Cattell Theory by vahid alibaygi sarhali, omalbanin nickhahnoori

“…In addition to the above, it should be said that Majnoon does not have a skeptical personality, but his behavior indicates a gullible human being who easily believes in the behavior of others and stands by these beliefs. …”
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Working Against Biological Explanations of Racial Difference in the Clinic and Beyond by Olivia Moscicki

“…[8] Advocacy for attention to racism must not be misconstrued as a call for attention to an imagined biological difference, and we must be particularly skeptical of such attention when it  is attached to profit.              …”
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The Ethics of Introspection by Dallas Ducar

“…It meets each and every day with the courage to be skeptical, to search for meaning, and to care deeply for others. …”
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The Case for In Vitro Meat by James Ninia

“…Mark Post, a scientist at the University of Maastricht researching IVM, claimed in 2015 that he managed to get the cost of his IVM production down to about $11 USD per beef patty.[x] Skeptics might additionally point to concerns with the possible taste of the meat or the fact that as of 2014, only one in every five Americans was willing to try meat grown in a lab.…”
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The Benefits and Burdens of Meat Consumption by Cynthia Coyle, Ashley McKinstry

“…While consumers enjoyed plentiful access to meat, skeptics such as Upton Sinclair detailed the horrors of the meat-packing industry and the associated health threats to the consumer. …”
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Rethinking Scientific Publishing by Sebastian Alers

“…Each article, whether published on ScienceOpen or elsewhere, should be read with an open mind and a skeptical attitude. Just because scientific results have been labeled "published" does not mean that the process of critical thinking should come to an end.…”
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Is journalism failing on climate? by Stefan Rahmstorf

“…Lett. 7 044005 Rahmstorf S 2004 The climate skeptics Weather Catastrophes and Climate Change—Is There Still Hope for Us? …”
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The Emergence of Early Sufi Piety and Sunni Scholasticism: ‘Abdallāh b. al-Mubārak and the Formation of Sunni Identity in the Second Islamic Century by Suheil Laher

“…Chapter 1 begins with a succinct overview of the ‘descriptive’ and ‘skeptical’ approaches among scholars of early Islamic history, followed by the relevant observation that interpretation of source material almost in- evitably reflects some of the assumptions of the scholar interpreting them. …”
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Analysis of Forest Guard Staff’s Attitudes towards the New Environmental Paradigm Case Study of Golestan Province by Ahmad Abedi Sarvestani, Mohammad Reza Shahraki

“…Married participants reject more anthropocentrism than singles, but singles are more skeptical about the future of the environment than married. …”
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Salafism in Nigeria: Islam, Preaching, and Politics by Christopher Anzalone

“…Instead of preaching political revo- lution, Nigerian Salafi activists sought to win greater access to the media including radio airtime because they believed this would ultimately lead to the triumph of their religious message despite the power of skeptical to downright hostile local audiences among the Sufi orders and non-Salafis dedicated to the Maliki juridical canon. …”
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A comparative study of the Balochi story of Hani and Shaymorid with Laila and Majnun of Nizami by Abdolghafour Jahandideh

“…(Jahandideh, 1390: 146)-Some critics and narrators of Laila and Majnun consider Majnun, a poet and attribute poems to him. Others are skeptical of attributing these poems to him.Some of Hani and Shaymorid's poems or poem collections are addressed to a dove or a nightingale to convey the messages to each other…”
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Post-COVID condition or “long COVID”, return-to work, and occupational health research by Alexis Descatha, Bradley A Evanoff, Marc Fadel

“…Modification of work duties improved RTW in this same study, whereas skeptical reactions from employers and colleagues and lack of support from the social welfare system complicated RTW in a qualitative study (30).Aben et al (32) conducted a study among employees who reported sick due to COVID-19 (N=30 396) or flu-like symptoms not due to COVID-19 (N=15,862), using routinely collected data from a national Dutch occupational health service. …”
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Professional Volunteers by Sebastian Agredo

“…However, he found this exercise to be a “waste of time” and instead focused his efforts on the “capture, selection, care and training of good healthy human guinea pigs”.[1] In doing so, Abbott went against the better judgment of his colleagues, but he was also adhering to the tradition of experimental medicine set forth by Claude Bernard in the mid-19thcentury: “it is our duty and our right to perform an experiment on man whenever it can save his life, cure him or gain him some personal benefit”.[2] Regardless of his determination, Abbott’s contemporaries were skeptical of his ability to find healthy men and women eager to subject themselves to intubation, and rightly so. …”
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Biobanks and Informed Consent by Gabriella Foe

“…Presently, at least part of society has remained skeptical towards science, while at the same time wanting to contribute to the greater good done through scientific research. …”
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The Women Who Don’t Get Counted by Caelan Rathke

“…One ethical issue is whether children, as innocents, are being punished either by being in the prison system or by being separated from their mothers. Skeptics, like James Dwyer, have argued against keeping innocent babies in the custody of incarcerated mothers asserting that there is little evidence demonstrating that the programs rehabilitate the women.[22] Dwyer commented on the “reckless” hopefulness the programs provide: "It might, in fact, be the babies distract them from rehabilitation they should be doing instead. […] They're so focused on childcare and have this euphoria — they think they'll be just fine when they get out of prison and they're not. …”
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