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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, church, conscience, freedom, Ontario, private schools, Quebec, religion, religious schools, synagogue, theocracy}

In Medicine and More, Canada Blazes a Trail to Authoritarianism

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December 4, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Some worry about theocracies. But Canada is demonstrating that a secularocracy can be just as suppressing of comity and human freedom. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Zoology
Tagged
, animal rights, birds, capitalism, China, conservation, environment, fishing, human exceptionalism, humans, hunters, hunting, insects, nature, pollution, prey, reptiles, rodents, socialism, wildlife}

“Multispecies Society”: Get Ready for Wild Animals’ Rights

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November 25, 2025

Bioethics, Zoology

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The everything-has-rights radicals admit the truth of human exceptionalism while denying that it exists. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 24, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, Duke University, entrepreneurs, evidence, faith and science, God the Science the Evidence, Humanize, information theory, Olivier Bonnassies, origin of life, Palomar Editions, physics, protein rarity, science writers, thermodynamics}

Science’s “Great Reversal”: Olivier Bonnassies and Brian Miller Discuss Evidence for God

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November 24, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

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What if the reality of God could be demonstrated scientifically? What evidence would it take? What would be the consequence? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 18, 2025

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Anna Krylov, bias, editors, ideology, integrity, Joe Biden, journals, Kamala Harris, medicine, Nature (journal), objectivity, Patrick T. Brown, propaganda, reform, skepticism, standards, The Free Press, universalism}

With Political Litmus Tests, Science Journals Go Anti-Science

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November 18, 2025

Scientific Freedom, Scientific Reasoning

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If more scientists follow Anna Krylov’s lead, perhaps these journals can regain the high regard in which they were once held. I certainly hope so. Read More ›

Drunk homeless man covered his face with his hands and sits on the stairs in the underpass, black and white photo.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Executive Order, feces, harm reduction, HIV, human dignity, medicine, mental illness, overdose, personal autonomy, San Francisco, The New England Journal of Medicine, Trump Administration}

“Harm Reduction” Harms the Homeless

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November 12, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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San Francisco was allowing harm reducers to give away “starter kits” to people so they could begin injecting drugs! Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, China, Ezekiel Emanuel, fetal farming, Harvard Medical School, health, life-extension, lifespan, longevity, New York Times, political prisoners, Singapore, transhumanism, well-being}

China Jumps on the Transhumanism Train

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November 12, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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It is said to be is devoting much energy and many resources to the life-extension project. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, Andrew Coyne, assisted suicide, California, Canada, Donald Trump, Hippocrates, Illinois, illnesses, medical assistance in dying, New York State, Oregon, Vermont, Woody Allen}

United States Is Becoming a Suicide Nation

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November 4, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics

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We are well on the way now to becoming more like Canada, where we have seen how the euthanasia virus leads to terrible abuses. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 30, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, authoritarianism, duties, governments, human thriving, Nature, nature rights, organisms}

The Rise of “Green” Authoritarianism

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 30, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics

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This is the most draconian and potentially tyrannical “nature rights” proposal I have yet seen. Read More ›

AI-generated illustration of a human fetus curled up in the womb

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, bioethics, doctors, drug addiction, embryology, fetus, miscarriages, pregnancy, racists, slavery, The New England Journal of Medicine, unborn children, United States, Vermont}

Medical Journal Screed Decries All Fetal Personhood Laws

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October 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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The authors imply that laws that protect unborn children are racist. But pro-lifers want more black babies born and protected from harm, not fewer. Read More ›

Futuristic holographic baby in doctor's hand: exploring virtual reality and medical technology

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 23, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, babies, bioethics, Brave New World, cells, children, China, CRISPR, eggs, embryos, gestational carriers, government, men, parents, regulation, reproduction, skin cells, somatic cell nuclear transfer, sperm, women}

Human Reproduction Is Becoming Human Manufacture

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October 23, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Making eggs out of skin cells is just the latest example of an accelerating reproductive anarchy that is changing our very culture. Read More ›