Category: Medicine | Page 55 | Science and Culture Today

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Wesley J. Smith

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May 13, 2018

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Bioethics
Medicine
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, __k-review, accountability, addiction, assisted suicide, Center for Disease Control, doctors, medication, opioid epidemic, oversight, pain, patients, physician-assisted suicide, prescription, Reason Magazine, suicide}

Mad World: Pain Doctors Face Greater Scrutiny Than Death Doctors

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May 13, 2018

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Our society often sacrifices law-abiding and productive people to protect the dysfunctional from themselves. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 1, 2018

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Bioethics
Medicine
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, __k-review, Alfie Evans, bioethicists, Charlie Gard, doctors, experts, futile care theory, health care, hospital, illness, judges, life support, medicine, parents, patients, technocracy}

Alfie Evans, a Victim of Technocracy

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May 1, 2018

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This was about raw power. If Alfie had escaped the diktat, there would soon be others demanding their freedom too. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 14, 2018

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Bioethics
Medicine
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, __k-review, abortion, Alfie Evans, assisted suicide, authoritarianism, Daily Mail, futile care theory, medicine, Michigan, parental rights, parents, police, Rome, Terri Shiavo, United Kingdom}

This Is What Medical Authoritarianism Looks Like

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April 14, 2018

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The Alfie Evans saga continues to roil the U.K., and it is increasingly looking like the Terri Schiavo case. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 29, 2018

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Bioethics
Medicine
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, __k-review, Alfie Evans, babies, BBC, Charlie Gard, doctors, futile care, health-care rationing, Italy, life support, medicine, technocracy, United Kingdom, utilitarianism}

Courts Decide It’s Time for Alfie Evans to Die

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March 29, 2018

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We are witnessing a steady and growing imposition of technocracy in medicine, where “experts” define the parameters of care. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 27, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
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, __k-review, British Columbia, Canada, dehydration, diabetes, doctor, elderly, euthanasia, insulin, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, mentally ill, Oregon, patients, starvation, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Qualifying for Euthanasia by Self-Starvation in Canada

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March 27, 2018

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Canada has embraced a positive “right to die.” Here is what happens once that Rubicon is crossed. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 21, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
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, __k-review, assisted suicide, Canada, China, coercion, disability, euthanasia, lawyer, Medicaid, Oregon, Toronto}

Canadian Disabled Man Is Denied Care but Offered Euthanasia

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March 21, 2018

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Will euthanasia be about money? Of course it will. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
March 16, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, cancer, cell metabolism, common descent, Darwinian medicine, disease, DNA, evolutionary theory, medical degree, medical school, Mel Greaves, Moshe Oren, mutations, nature, Neo-Darwinism, p53 protein, patients, physicians, Randolph Nesse, Ras family, Theodosius Dobzhansky, tissue, TP53 gene, tumor, tumor suppressor, Varda Rotter, Zombie Science (book)}

Evolutionary Theory Might Explain…a Deadly Disease

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March 16, 2018

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Evolutionary theory fails to explain what almost all biology students are told it explains: the origin and diversity of life. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
March 15, 2018

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Evolution
Medicine
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, __k-review, academic freedom, American Medical Association, Baltimore, evidence, evolution, Free Science, insurance, Johns Hopkins University, litigation, malpractice, medicine, orthodoxy, patients, physicians, Washington D.C}

The Costs of Defensive Science

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March 15, 2018

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In our highly litigious society, physicians and other health-care professionals often practice what is known as “defensive medicine.” Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 12, 2018

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Bioethics
Medicine
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, __k-review, abortion, Alzheimer’s, baby, Constitution, Down syndrome, eugenics, gene expression, genetic testing, Iceland, love, parents, Sarah Palin, Washington Post, women}

Abortion and the New Eugenics

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March 12, 2018

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Ruth Marcus sees the eugenics danger with which we are presented — and doesn’t care. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 11, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, Compassion & Choices, death, Department of Health and Human Services, euthanasia, Hemlock Society, life, medical aid in dying, medicine, nurses, patients, pharmacists, physicians, Vermont}

Assisted-Suicide Pushers Want Forced MD Participation

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March 11, 2018

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Sometimes they show their true hands. Read More ›