Category: Medicine

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
January 2, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, air, biochemistry, body, breathing, cardiac cycle, cycles, dust, human body, information, Krebs cycle, medical research, medical school, nasal cycle, nose, nostrils, olfaction, physicians, Popular Science, respiratory function, scientists, turbinates}

Olfaction in Three Dimensions: Introducing the Nasal Cycle

_{Howard Glicksman
January 2, 2026

Intelligent Design, Medicine

3}

Besides the nose helping the mouth to bring in air, it also screens out dust and pollutants, while warming and adding water to prepare it for the lungs. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 26, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 4th of July, americans, atheists, blueberries, Christof Koch, CNN, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute, faith and science, fireworks, Gaza, Independence Day, Israel, journalists, July 4, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, near-death experiences, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Roman Catholics, Scripture, Seattle, skeptics, Sunday Times, The Immortal Mind, YouTube videos}

No. 7 Story for 2025: World’s “Best-Known Journalist” Meets Michael Egnor

_{David Klinghoffer
December 26, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Piers Morgan, who is Catholic, says he already believed in life after death from faith and Scripture. What he wanted, he said, was scientific evidence for it. Read More ›

Alfred Nobel Prize. Two medals standing on red fabric.

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 24, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, autoimmune diseases, blood-clotting cascade, Daniel Davis, Daniel Lawler, Foxp3, Fred Ramsdell, Helen Thomson, Immune System, immunologists, Imperial College London, Institute for Systems Biology, Irreducible Complexity, Japan, Julien Dury, Mary Brunkow, Michael Behe, Nature (journal), New Scientist, Nobel Committee, Nobel Prize, regulatory T cells, San Francisco, Seattle, Shimon Sakaguchi, Sonoma Biotherapeutics, Tregs, University of Osaka, Your Amazing Body}

No. 9 Story for 2025: Biological Foresight Wins Nobel Prize

_{David Coppedge
December 24, 2025

Intelligent Design, Medicine

8}

The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 2025 was awarded to three immunologists who discovered regulatory T cells. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, black market, China, crime, Daily Mail, Falun Gong, human organs, human tissues, kidney, living kidney donations, mortuary, murder, Ngor-Okpala, Nigeria, organ-harvesting, political prisoners, Umuhu, Uyghur Muslims}

Purchasers of Black-Market Human Organs Often Complicit in Murder

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 8, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

The black market in human organs does not receive nearly enough attention. China is probably the worst offender. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 6, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, C. S. Lewis, citizens, closed-mindedness, COVID-19, freedom, government, ID the Future, intolerance, John West, natural world, pandemic, physical science, podcast, privacy, public health, science, scientism, scientists, technocracy, The Magician’s Twin}

From C. S. Lewis, Prophetic Warnings on Science and Scientism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 6, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

What happens when science leaves human values behind? Or when governments become beholden to scientists? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, accreditation, Canadian Charter, church, comity, conscience, face coverings, freedom, freedom of worship, mosque, Municipal Powers Act, Ontario, private schools, Quebec, religion, religious freedom, religious schools, religious symbols, secularocracy, synagogue, temple, theocracy}

In Medicine and More, Canada Blazes a Trail to Authoritarianism

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 4, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Some worry about theocracies. But Canada is demonstrating that a secularocracy can be just as suppressing of comity and human freedom. 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
, Debra J. Saunders, drug abuse, drug abusers, Executive Order, feces, harm causation, harm reduction, HIV, human dignity, Joshua Barocas, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Market Street, medicine, mental illness, needle exchange, overdose, personal autonomy, playgrounds, public policies, safe injection sites, San Francisco, sidewalks, syringe-services programs, The New England Journal of Medicine, Trump Administration, Union Square}

“Harm Reduction” Harms the Homeless

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

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

Expérience de mort imminente autrement appelé EMI

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, clarity, confusion, Daily Mail, endorphins, enkephalins, geometry, hypoxia, jesus, Ken Drinkwater, ketamine, Manchester Metropolitan University, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, Neil Shaw, neuroscience, Olaf Blanke, oxygen, Pam Reynolds, psychology, Sebastian Dieguez, soul, The Immortal Mind, veridical, Wiliam Hunter}

Near-Death Experiences: Explaining vs. Explaining Away

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 12, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

The first rule of a scientific approach should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Bo Yang Wang, China, dead, Ezekiel Emanuel, Falon Gong, fetal farming, Fountain of Youth, Harvard Medical School, health, Immortal Dragons, Juan Ponce de León, life-extension, lifespan, longevity, New York Times, political prisoners, Singapore, transhumanism, uploaded, Vadim Gladyshev, well-being, Yip Tszho}

China Jumps on the Transhumanism Train

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

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

Illustration multiplication of cells in blue

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Date
October 30, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, biology, brain cells, brains, cells, Christof Koch, Darwinism, information, kidney cells, kidneys, learning, memory, neuroscientists, Nikolay V. Kukushkin, panpsychism, philosophy of biology, skull, Tibi Puiu, TIME, ZME Science}

Researchers Find Memory Outside the Brain

_{Science and Culture
October 30, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

It it is very difficult to look at the natural world seriously and not see a mind in there somewhere. Read More ›