In article , Daniel-San
wrote:


Be nice to the guy in ROFB who just said "baseball ethics is [sic] a joke".
:-)

'Ethics', like 'mathematics' etc., can be either singular or plural.
And Fowler, in 'Modern English useage', would probably favour a
singular here.

'The presence of a singular noun complement often makes the verb
singular: "Mathematics, or even Athletics, is his strong point." '

Lazarus

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