Category: Medicine | Page 10 | Science and Culture Today

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February 3, 2025

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Medicine
Scientific Freedom
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, AIDS, americans, Anthony Fauci, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19, herd immunity, hospitalizations, immunology, infection, Joe Biden, Maryland, pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert R. Redfield, truth, vaccine, vaccine mandates, viruses, Wesley J. Smith}

In Covid Response, Government Did Not Trust the People with Information

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February 3, 2025

Medicine, Scientific Freedom

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Ex-CDC director Robert Redfield explores the issue of trust in public health — and its loss — with Wesley J. Smith. Read More ›

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January 29, 2025

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Bioethics
Medicine
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, CIA, COVID-19, government, health, HIV, lab leak, Maryland, medicine, mRNA vaccines, public health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert R. Redfield, safety, Vaccines, virologists}

Former CDC Director: What Worked, What Didn’t, with Covid

_{Science and Culture
January 29, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Wesley J. Smith interviewed Robert R. Redfield on the public health disasters brought on by Covid and the reasons for the loss of trust in public health. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, consciousness, David Chalmers, Delusion, George Musser, hard problem of consciousness, human consciousness, Nautilus, neuroscientists, psychiatric disorders, psychologists}

Scientists Examining Consciousness — Here’s the Problem

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 27, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Many researchers do like to write about consciousness and here are two recent contributions to the accessible literature. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, atheism, culture, dignity, human life, life, Nat Hentoff, oppression, The Guardian, tyranny}

This Close: Almost Embracing Sanctity of Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 18, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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It is always good to see someone wrestling with truth. Sonia Sodha is on the way to an important understanding. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, authority, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge, COVID-19, culture, denial, England, John West, lockdowns, pandemic, scientism, United States, worship}

John West: How C. S. Lewis Anticipated Our Experience of Scientism

_{David Klinghoffer
January 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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I was shocked during Covid by the way healthy respect for science shaded rapidly into cowering submission and unquestioning scientistic worship of authority. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 17, 2024

Categories
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, augustine, blood, brains, carbon dioxide, Denyse O'Leary, emotions, free will, heart, intellect, kidneys, memories, muscles, Mystery of the Mind, neuroscience, oxygen, pain, Plato, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, urine, Wilder Penfield}

What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?

_{Michael Egnor
December 17, 2024

Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 14, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain imaging, coordination, fMRI, Michael Egnor, mind, movement, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, textbooks, The Immortal Mind, thinking, tumors}

Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 14, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 5, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, bureaucracy, censorship, China, Christians, civil rights, COVID-19, dissent, Donald Trump, epidemiologists, Evangelical Christians, Facebook, Great Barrington Declaration, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Mark Zuckerberg, National Institutes of Health, natural immunity, New York City, public health, social media, South Africa, Stanford University, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, The Road to Wisdom, United States}

Frightening Recommendations from Francis Collins

_{John G. West
December 5, 2024

Medicine, Scientific Freedom

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The former NIH head thinks the government didn't exert enough control during the last pandemic. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
December 4, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, antibiotics, bacterial flagellum, Ben Carson, Bible, Bill Nye, blood-clotting cascade, Charles Darwin, creationists, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, evolution, Francis Collins, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan Wells, Lawrence Krauss, Luther College, medicine, Michael Behe, On the Origin of Species, pharmaceuticals, science writers, selective breeding, smallpox, Vaccines, virology}

Shawn Otto and the “War on Science”

_{Robert Shedinger
December 4, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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If evolutionary theory is so fundamental to medical research, why has no evolutionary biologist ever won a Noble Prize in physiology or medicine? Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
December 3, 2024

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, ambient temperature, amino acids, bones, breast milk, butterflies, campfire, Carl Jung, clouds, coincidences, Discovery Institute, Doctor's Diary (series), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, enzyme, femur, Florence, glucose, Harvest House, humerus, ice, iron, Michael Denton, moths, Mount Rushmore, nucleotide, Oregon, oxygen, Pacific Northwest, potassium, sodium, synchronicity, The Design Inference, vitamin B12, water, What Darwin Didn’t Know, William A. Dembski}

Doctor’s Diary: No Such Thing as a Coincidence

_{Geoffrey Simmons
December 3, 2024

Botany, Life Sciences, Medicine

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I find coincidences everywhere I look, all the time. Consider a simple blade of grass. One could write a long treatise about the simultaneous goings-on therein. Read More ›