“The Writer’s Duty”

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Do writers have an obligation to readers, an unwritten code of ethics, of honor? Certainly, those who write non-fiction are more at risk for condemnation if they present an idea as authentic without facts to support it. And even with those facts, opposing views will appear with facts of their own. What is truth but viewpoints held by a majority, scientific evidence, statistics that can, with a mere slip of the pen be manipulated. It is a race for the…