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Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 30, 2025

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Bioethics
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
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, 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

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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
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 28, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adulthood, adults, babies, Columbia University, hippocampus, infancy, memory, sci-fi, Science (journal), Yale University}

Why Don’t We Remember Being Babies?

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March 28, 2025

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If we were not conscious, we could hardly have learned all that we had to learn in those first few months of life. Read More ›

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Date
March 19, 2025

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Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, China, COVID-19, disease, epidemiologists, Italy, lockdowns, pandemic, political scientists, Princeton University, Princeton University Press, progressives, World Health Organization}

Princeton Scholars Deliver Hard Truths About Covid Policies

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March 19, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Princeton political scientists Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee have just published a book highly critical of COVID pandemic policies. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, Aristotle, atoms, behaviorism, Benjamin Libet, brain, breathing, conception, consciousness, eliminative materialism, galaxies, glaciers, heartbeat, hydranencephaly, identity theory, Justine Sergent, machine, molecules, neurons, neuroscience, perception, planets, pseudoscience, René Descartes, Roger Sperry, Scientific American, soul, trees, Werner Heisenberg, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2025

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If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 6, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, body parts, Center for Medical Progress, children, Christianity, Christianity Today, Christians, COVID-19, David Daleiden, embryos, Evangelical Christians, Francis Collins, gestation, Holy Spirit, infants, jesus, John the Baptist, John West, Judicial Watch, National Institutes of Health, Nicene Creed, Stockholm Syndrome, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Sweden, unborn, University of Pittsburgh}

Stockholm Syndrome: Francis Collins and the Unborn

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March 6, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

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Collins is a role model for aspiring young Christians, right? John West says, not so fast. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, accountability, bureaucrats, children, Congress, COVID-19, deaths, Declaration of Independence, Democrats, English, experts, Hoover Institution, Humanize, Jay Bhattacharya, leadership, liberty, lockdowns, National Institutes of Health, pandemic, Republicans, Scott Atlas, Stanford University, vaccine, vaccine mandates, viruses, Wall Street Journal, Washington DC, Washington State, Wesley J. Smith}

Let’s Not Forget About That Covid Commission

_{David Klinghoffer
March 5, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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When speaking of the disaster that began to unfold in 2020, do you refer to it as the Covid “pandemic” or the Covid “lockdowns and vaccine mandates”? 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

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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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Date
February 27, 2025

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Bioethics
Medicine
Metascience
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, artificial intelligence, California, chatbots, China, Elisabeth Bik, errors, Ethiopia, India, investigation, large language models, misconduct, mistakes, Nature (journal), Pakistan, physicians, Research, researchers, Retraction Crisis, Saudi Arabia, universities}

China Leads the World in Retracted Science Papers

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February 27, 2025

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Seven of the Top Ten retraction hotspots are in China but India, Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia also make an appearance. 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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Date
February 25, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, American Council for Science and Health, artificial intelligence, Belgium, bias, chatbot, climate change, Gary Smith, hallucination, medicine, neuroscience, privacy, psychiatry, safety, Stanford University, suicide}

Replace Psychiatrists with AI?

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February 25, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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"A Belgian man, after weeks of dialogues with his chatbot 'confidante,' committed suicide after it encouraged him to sacrifice himself for climate change." Read More ›