In Canada, Euthanasia Yes — Palliative Care, Not So Much

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 19, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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Canada has created a positive right to euthanasia — including coercing dissenting doctors. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 14, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, ALS, assisted suicide, Brittany Maynard, cancer, depression, euthanasia, interventions, Jack Kevorkian, Michael Shermer, Netherlands, Oregon, overdose, pain, Scientific American, suicide prevention, terminal illness, University of Toronto}

Scientific American: Prevention Can Benefit Any Suicidal Person

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 14, 2018

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

My last hospice patient, Bob, told me that after some months of just wanting to be dead, that he had “come out of the fog.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 23, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, aging, Alzheimer’s, cancer, death, disease, duty to die, elderly, Ezekiel Emanuel, Hastings Center Report, health, health insurance, John Hardwig, life, medical care, medicine, rationing, University of Illinois, utilitarianism}

A “Healthspan” Duty to Die for the Elderly?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 23, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

University of Illinois professor S. Jay Olshansky argues that it is time to shift medicine’s focus — starting at age 65 — away from “life extension.” Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 23, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, "survival of the fittest", asphyxiation, baby, birth, brain, breathing, cells, cervix, development, Doctor's Diary (series), egg, embryo, fingerprints, hypoxia, intelligent design, lungs, Modernizing Darwin (series), mother, mutations, neonatal intensive care, neurons, organs, oxygen, placenta, smiling, surgery, umbilical cord, uterus, voice, zygote}

Doctor’s Diary: To Make a Baby Requires Intelligent Design

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 23, 2018

Intelligent Design, Medicine

6}

Like a well-written, trillion-page novel, every micro-step, every macro-step, every twist and turn of our development follows a master plan. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 14, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Brown University, children, clinical practice, doctors, Ezekiel Emanuel, gender dysphoria, human experimentation, ideology, mastectomy, New England Journal of Medicine, patients, Politicians, pundits, surgery, The Federalist}

But Wesley, It’s a Study!

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 14, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Sorry. In our ideological times, that doesn’t mean as much as it once did. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 13, 2018

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, "poor design", antibodies, bacteria, cilia, common cold, enzymes, Evolution News, gravity, Human Errors, intelligent design, maxillary sinus, Michael Egnor, mucus, Nathan Lents, paranasal sinuses, Peaceful Science, physiology, S. Joshua Swamidass, Wall Street Journal, Wikipedia}

Nathan Lents Is Back; Still Wrong About Sinuses

_{Casey Luskin
September 13, 2018

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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The interaction with Lents is of interest because it provides an opportunity to look again, in some detail, at a fascinating illustration of design in action. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 12, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, cancer, Charlotte’s Web, doctors, euthanasia, grandchildren, homicide, medicine, morphine, mother, New York Times}

A Daughter’s Lament

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 12, 2018

Medicine

4}

A New York Times writer asks, “Could I Kill My Mother?” Read More ›

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Date
August 27, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, BioLogos, C.S. Lewis, cancer, Douglas Axe, evolution, gain of function, intelligent design, John Cairns, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, Michael Lynch, mutations, Nature Genetics, pathogens, Peaceful Science, S. Joshua Swamidass, The Edge of Evolution, theistic evolution, TP53 gene, tumor}

Swamidass: Cancer “Can Innovate”

_{Science and Culture
August 27, 2018

Intelligent Design, Medicine

8}

Cancer proves evolution only insofar as one forgets, or pretends not to know, what evolution is supposed to explain. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
August 20, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, BioLogos, cancer, cells, Charles Darwin, DNA, evolution, genes, great apes, humans, intelligent design, Iron Age, iron ore, mutations, Pierre-Luc Germain, S. Joshua Swamidass, theology, tumor}

Does Cancer Disprove Intelligent Design?

_{Jonathan Wells
August 20, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

7}

Is it true, as one critics says, that “cancer regularly innovates with proteins of novel function”? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 18, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, Bloomberg, elderly, health care, health-care rationing, terminal illness}

Stop Blaming Elderly and Terminally Ill for Our Health-Care Spending Problems

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 18, 2018

Medicine

3}

There is a widely believed myth that the elderly and dying take up a huge amount of the overall health-care budget. Read More ›