Category: Bioethics | Page 74 | Science and Culture Today

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Sarah Chaffee

Date
March 21, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
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On World Down Syndrome Day, Consider Human Exceptionalism

_{Sarah Chaffee
March 21, 2019

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Evolutionary theory teaches the “survival of the fittest.” But caring for someone with Down Syndrome represents just the opposite way of thinking. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 20, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, adult stem cells, bioethicis, bone marrow, clinical trials, Food and Drug Administration, George W. Bush, human cloning, journalism, multiple sclerosis, scientists}

Past Years of Hype Notwithstanding, Adult Stem Cells Are Now the “Gold Standard”

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 20, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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Remember this the next time ideologically driven scientists, bioethicists, and their media water carriers seek to drive public opinion. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 17, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
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Germ-Line Gene Editing Will Never Be Safe

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March 17, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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The brains of two babies who were germ-line gene edited using the CRISPR process — meaning the engineered genetic changes will flow down the generations. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 16, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Canada, Daily Mail, Death with Dignity, diabetes, doctors, euthanasia, homicide, hospital, lethal injection, media, nihilism, nurses, suicide, values}

At the Euthanasia Party

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 16, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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Is this kind of thing right or wrong? Some may see it as empowering, dying “his own way,” as the media continually put it. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 11, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, cyborgs, eugenics, evolution, fauna, gene editing, humanity, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, Kansas, love, natural selection, soul, transhumanism, Transhumanist Bill of Rights}

Transhumanism, the Lazy Way to Human “Improvement”

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 11, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Peter Clarke claims that I was “clearly fearmongering,” but then admits, “this depiction is fairly accurate.” Okay, then. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 6, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, Dogs, embryo, gender dysphoria, gestation, Joseph Fletcher, Journal of Medical Ethics, males, monkeys, mutilation, pain, The Ethics of Genetic Control, uterus transplant}

Bioethicists Urge a Grotesque Abuse of Animals

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 6, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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Once again, we find that if radicals envision it, eventually we will try to go there. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 6, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Africans, Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, Bronx Zoo, evolution, Human Zoos, ID the Future, mainstream science, Michael Medved, missing links, Ota Benga, podcast, scientific racism, skeptics, slavery, St. Louis World's Fair}

Listen: Bought in a Slave Auction, Displayed as Evolutionary “Science”

_{David Klinghoffer
March 6, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution

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The association with “mainstream science” is often weaponized as a way of overawing us and persuading us to stop expecting answers to hard questions. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 5, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Tagged
, __k-review, Argentina, Bolivia, greenmail, human thriving, Lake Erie, litigation, nature rights, orangutan, Pachamama, Pittsburgh, radicalism, Santa Monica, Toledo, writ of habeas corpus}

Lake Erie Now Has Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 5, 2019

Bioethics, Environment & Climate

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If nature has rights, that means everything does, which devalues “rights” just as a wild inflation deflates the worth of currency. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 2, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
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Darkness Rising: As It Turns Out, Not All Newborns Have a Right to Life

_{Michael Egnor
March 2, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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The culture of death — the dehumanization of the vulnerable and the unwanted — is fast upon us. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 26, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, anthropology, cruelty, Cupples Hall, history, Human Zoos, John West, missing links, pygmies, St. Louis, Washington University}

Human Zoos and a Cruel Past: A Visit to Washington University

_{David Klinghoffer
February 26, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution

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Take a look inside the university’s Cupples Hall where, down in the basement, psychological tests, “including pain testing,” were conducted on evolutionary “missing links.” Read More ›