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In an observation piece at Scientific American, Ralph Nader (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader) writes about the decades of struggles by conscientious engineers—whether employees or consultants—who strive to balance professional ethics with occupational survival.
Nader writes:
[...] today's engineers are working in an improved environment for taking their conscience to work. Yet much more remains to be done to safeguard the ability of engineers to speak truth to the powers-that-be.
For starters, the word whistle-blower—once popularly meant to describe a snitch or a disgruntled employee—now describes an ethical person willing to put his or her job on the line in order to expose corrupt, illegal, fraudulent and harmful activities. Indeed, in the aftermath of recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes, the media routinely and positively refers to disclosures by "Boeing whistle-blowers." Congressional investigating committees and federal agencies have called for whistle-blowers to come forward and shed light on corporate misdeeds and governmental agency lapses.
To put it mildly, this was not always the case.
LINK: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/when-engineers-become-whistleblowers/
(Score: 2) by Farkus888 on Wednesday May 15 2019, @11:21PM
Engineer probably isn't the right word. If you divide the world into people who need to know how a physical thing works to do their job and those who don't... Both of your doctors and arguably your intelligence analyst fall on the same side as engineers. It is a better division. A welder may not be an engineer but they are still directly tied to the reality of shit work failing obviously that an engineer is. Marketing and middle management can weasel about unexpected stuff that it was their job to predict. The differences between who chooses those paths is broader than introvert and extrovert like people on the soft side like to think.