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Leading Bioethics Journal Pathologizes Pregnancy

The views expressed are consistent with the increasing anti-natalism seen lately in philosophy and bioethics. Read More ›
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Self-Starvation to Qualify for Assisted Suicide

Once again, the assisted-suicide movement shows itself to be public-policy promise breakers of the most egregious kind and raw zealots for the death agenda. Read More ›
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Are Memories “Stored” in the Brain?

The answer has implications both for neuroscience and for our deeper understanding of the mind-body relationship. Read More ›
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Now Doctors to Help Younger People Commit Suicide by Self-Starvation

Of course, we in the U.S. have our own such issues, even beyond pernicious VSED advocacy. Read More ›
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Brain as a Quantum System: Theory Gets New Traction

Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function. Read More ›
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New Findings About Our Mysterious “Second Brain”

It wasn’t long ago that researchers were hardly aware of the way the digestive system functions as a second brain. The big focus was neurons. Read More ›
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In Prestigious Journal, Bioethicist Pushes Human Extinction

The human-extinction movement used to be pretty fringy but it may be gaining traction within bioethics and philosophy. Read More ›
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Francis Collins Disappointed as a Public-Health Leader

Many Christians looked to Collins, an Evangelical Christian who was also a brilliant scientist, to bring a greater sense of morality to the research pursuit. Read More ›
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This Is Science? Top Medical Journal Goes After … Capitalism

Having strived to transform global warming into a planetary health emergency, it has now published a screed attacking “commercialism” for killing the planet. Read More ›

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