Senator Rónán Mullen. Independent NUI Senator Rónan Mullen has accused the national broadcaster of editorialising around ethics. A report on RTÉ Radio 1’s Morning Ireland on Tuesday referred to controversial academic Peter Singer as a “world-renowned ethicist”. Reacting on social media, Senator Mullen described this as “editorialising”.
“Some of his views (e.g. on people with disability) are controversial and ugly,” Mr Mullen tweeted.
“Let’s make up our own minds on what he’s saying without hints from RTÉ News,” he said in the post on the microblogging site.
Amongst other things, Australian-born Dr Singer has argued that parents should be allowed to euthanise newborn children.
“Human babies are not born self-aware, or capable of grasping that they exist over time. They are not persons [therefore] the life of a newborn is of less value than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee,” he has written.