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MDs Support Expanding Assisted Suicide Beyond the Terminally Ill

The myth that legal assisted suicide is about terminal illness is becoming harder to swallow. Evidence can be found in a recent survey. Read More ›
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What Turned an Esteemed Doctor into a Scheming Authoritarian?

Fauci damaged his own reputation by trashing sound scientists, denouncing inconvenient evidence, and even going so far as to say “I represent science.” Read More ›
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Dehumanizing Skeptics of the “International Order”

The people’s loss of “belief” was the natural consequence of the international system’s failing and betraying those it was designed to serve. Read More ›
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Animals Using Healing Plants? That’s Old News

Recently, an orangutan who successfully treated a wound by applying chewed leaves to it touched off a worldwide media event. Read More ›
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On Tobacco, Technocracy Has a Clever New Idea

Is tobacco just the first villain to be punished by a growing technocracy that seeks to limit freedom based on an ever-expanding definition of “health”? Read More ›
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Sociovirologists Say Viruses Can Cheat, Cooperate

What does it mean to say that a defective string of genes’s behavior could be self-defeating? Or self-preserving? Where did the “self” come in? Read More ›
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How the Public Health Establishment Squandered Our Trust

The Covid pandemic was devastating, not only for society generally, but also to the reputations of our once-trusted health agencies. Read More ›
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Assuming Design, Researchers Achieve a Breakthrough in Understanding Circulatory System

The authors also explain how the standard evolutionary framework misdirected earlier researchers. Read More ›
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Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!

It seems to me that the best approach to the policy opinions of mainstream bioethicists is to consider the source, shrug, and carry on. Read More ›

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