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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bureaucrats, dams, development, ecosystems, free market, Great Lakes, human flourishing, industry, legislation, life forms, nature rights, New York State, Ohio, Toledo, water}

New York State: Rights for Lakes, Waterways

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April 13, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design

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For the future good of human flourishing, we need to take the “nature rights” movement seriously. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 9, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Paleontology
Science Reporting
Technology
Tagged
, base pairs, biotech, clicks, Colossal Biosciences, de-extinction, dire wolves, elephant, fur, gene editing, gray wolves, headlines, media, New Scientist, woolly mammoth}

Dire Wolves Are Still Extinct

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April 9, 2025

Archaeology, Paleontology, Science Reporting, Technology

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Let’s call it puffery. The company was careful to acknowledge that the dire wolf is not actually back but that the pups are “functional equivalents.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 30, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, censorship, COVID-19, DOGE, Donald Trump, Francis Collins, hysteria, ideology, innovation, Jay Bhattacharya, National Institutes of Health, PhD students, reform, research funding, scientific debate, scientists, Trump Administration}

Hysteria in the Science Sector Over DOGE

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March 30, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Scientific Freedom

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Whatever problems now exist for the public medical research funding sector, the disappointing Francis Collins helped create them. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 26, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Tagged
, abortion, advance directive, Arthur Caplan, assisted suicide, culture of death, dehydration, disability rights, euthanasia, fluids, food, gender-affirming care, Humanize, Michael Schiavo, parents, pro-life movement, Roe v. Wade, self-starvation and dehydration, Terri Schiavo, vaccine mandates, water}

Schiavo Case Was a Terrible Cultural Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 26, 2025

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting

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The case elevated the culture of death into a conflagration. It boosted the passage of assisted suicide laws. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, babies, fish, gestating human babies, image of God, insects, invertebrates, life, mammals, microbes, moral responsibility, NYU, philosophers, universe}

Microbes as “Moral Agents”? Bioethicist Says Yes

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 14, 2025

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, animal experiments, animals, chimpanzees, Edward Taub, elephants, First Amendment, illnesses, Ingrid Newkirk, journalists, National Institutes of Health, Nonhuman Rights Project, persons, PETA, Silver Spring Monkey Case, writ of habeas corpus}

PETA Sues NIH for Violating Its “First Amendment Right” to Talk to Monkeys

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 13, 2025

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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There is not one modern medical treatment or intervention that does not involve animal research at some point in the process. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, accessibility, activism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Free Science, free speech, government, Great Barrington Declaration, ideology, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, misinformation, National Institutes of Health, Politics, protests, research funding, scientism, scientocracy, Stand Up for Science, Sunetra Gupta, universities}

Stand Up for Science or… for Naked Ideology?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2025

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom

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“Stand Up for Science 2025” protests were clearly aimed at reaffirming control by the now discredited science establishment. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 3, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, “consensus science”, americans, authoritarianism, conformity, COVID-19, crime, drunk driving, Ethan Siegel, expertise, freedom, hospitals, hubris, humility, ideology, lockdowns, military, punishment, schools, security, Supreme Court, vaccine mandates, Vaccines}

Far from Chastened by Reality, Scientific Authoritarians Are Doubling Down

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 3, 2025

Medicine, Scientific Freedom

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Ethan Siegel, an astrophysicist and award-winning science writer, advocates for criminally and civilly punishing violators of the “scientific consensus.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, doctors, global warming, health care, Journal of the American Medical Association, journals, medicine, patients, Politics, The Lancet}

Claim: Only Doctors Can Prevent Global Warming

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Science, medical, and bioethics journals are setting themselves up as the new political resistance. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 19, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animal rights, CRISPR, Davos, discrimination, environmentalism, Europe, fauna, flora, genetic engineering, genocide, germ line, humanity, mammals, Munich, nature rights, oppression, PETA, rights, slavery}

Defending Human Exceptionalism in Munich

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 19, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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This matters tremendously because human exceptionalism is the necessary predicate to universal human rights. Read More ›