Are Ethicists Necessarily Ethical?

A study of ethicists finds they're no more ethical than the rest of us (and no better at calling their mothers) ... A study of 417 professors published last week in Philosophical Psychology found that, though the 151 ethics professors expressed stricter moral views, they were no better at behaving ethically.

Is philosophy also ethical?

Understood as the philosophical study of moral concepts, ethics is a branch of philosophy, not of social science.

Are ethicists better people?

And in studies measuring philosophers' actual behavior rather than their judgments about each other, Schwitzgebel found that ethicists were no more courteous than non-ethicists at a philosophy conference. ... However, on no issue did ethicists show significantly better behavior than the two comparison groups.