Category: Ethics

Doctor carrying a cooler box for organ transport doctor ensures swift and safe organ transport using specialized cooler box, optimizing life-saving medical procedures

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 17, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Australia, Belgium, bioethics, brain cancer, Canada, cause of death, coma, dead donor rule, euthanasia, Hippocratic Oath, homicide, medical ethics, mentally ill, natural resources, Netherlands, New Zealand, npr, organ donation, organ-harvesting, patients, recontextualization, Robert D. Truog, Spain, suffering, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Ghoulish Proposal: Killing for Organs Gets a Prestige Endorsement

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 17, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Transforming sick and disabled people into a killable caste objectifies them as potential natural resources to be mined or harvested. Read More ›

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Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
July 1, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bible, Center for Science and Culture, Declaration of Independence, democracy, dignitas, divine image, endowed by our creator, faith and science, gas chambers, gulags, Harold J. Berman, Harvard Law School, human rights, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, Latin, United States}

Are Our Rights Blessed by God, or Begrudged by Government?

_{Charles Thaxton and Stephen C. Meyer
July 1, 2026

Ethics, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

In the Western tradition human rights have been said to exist independently of the state because they have been based upon human dignity. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 24, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __trending, argumentum ad omnes, argumentum ad populum, B. F. Skinner, brain reflexes, Censor of the Year, Censor of the Year Award, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Discovery Institute, Drosophila, free will, fruit flies, Jerry Coyne, libertarian free will, meat machines, morality, operant conditioning, parking lot, Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris, self-contradiction, social compliance, sophistry, Why Evolution Is True}

Morality Is Unintelligible Without Free Will: A Reply to Jerry Coyne

_{Michael Egnor
June 24, 2026

Bioethics, Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A moral society is something entirely different from a well-run pigeon farm or a flourishing bottle of fruit flies. Read More ›

young man lies in a coma in a hospital ward, connected to life support equipment, monitors

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Date
June 21, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Adrian Owen, bioethics, brain damage, brain injury, Brian Edlow, car accident, Columbia University, covert consciousness, doctors, fMRI machine, Harvard Medicine, hidden awareness, ICU, Michael Egnor, Michael Young, Molly McDonough, Neuralink, patients, Science (journal), treatment, vegetative state}

Covert Consciousness Poses Bioethical Dilemmas

_{Science & Culture
June 21, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

A great deal of work is needed in clinical studies to provide a large enough database to help guide treatment decisions. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 18, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, act of nature, atheist scientists, books, brains, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, free will, free will deniers, human dignity, human soul, humor, Jerry Coyne, meatware, Michael Egnor, morality, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Robert Sapolsky, royalty checks, Sam Harris, The Atheist Press}

Michael Egnor: Three Atheist Scientists Walk into a Book

_{David Klinghoffer
June 18, 2026

Ethics, Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

2}

In the absence of free will, “morality” can make no claims about anything. It's only an illusion projected by the meatware of our brains. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 16, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Computational Sciences
Tagged
, accelerationism, Alex Williams, artificial intelligence, death, Elon Musk, Grokipedia, human beings, human exceptionalism, human life, machines, Monash University, Netscape, Nick Land, Nick Srnicek, philosophy, Ray Kurzweil, Silicon Valley, Singularity, superintelligence, tech entrepreneurs, transhumanism, Tucker Carlson, Vincent Lê}

“Accelerating” Toward a Post-Human Future, and Loving It

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 16, 2026

Bioethics, Computational Sciences

5}

There is a lot of AI Apocalypse Now! and AI Utopia Soon! in the news these days. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 14, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, authority, business, chronic pain, despair, disability, doctors, Gallup, love, media, medicine, moral acceptability, opinions, physician-assisted suicide, poll, popular culture, prevention, rescue, respondents, self-termination, spouse, suicide, terminal sickness}

On Morality of Suicide, a Wide Disparity of Opinion; Why?

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 14, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Close to a majority, 49 percent, answered that committing suicide with a doctor’s help is morally acceptable, while 45 percent responded that it is not. Read More ›

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Date
June 10, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, academics, AI slop, artificial inteligence, arXiv, bioRxiv, citations, clinical-trial studies, fabrication, Frankencitations, hallucinations, humans, Jay Van Bavel, Nature (journal), PubMed Central, references, researchers, scholars, SSRN, systematic reviews}

In Science Research, a Plague of Phony Citations Generated by AI

_{Science & Culture
June 10, 2026

Ethics, Scientific Reasoning

2}

Ironically, the public has been taught to worry that AI is taking over and will do everything better than humans. Read More ›

Carer in latex gloves feeding an aged lady

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 4, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, advance directive, autonomy, caregivers, chemotherapy, comfort feeding, death, dementia, Dementia-Specific Advance Directives, dignity, euthanasia, feeding tubes, food, kidney dialysis, medical treatments, New Jersey, nourishment, public policy, spoon-feeding, undernourishment, water}

Mission to Kill Dementia Patients Moves Forward

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 4, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

By all means, prohibit forced feeding, but also provide that patients be given all nourishment they want. Read More ›

Hands of an elderly man resting on a walking cane

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 30, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, antipsychotics, assisted suicide, bioethicists, Bioethics (journal), confusion, decision‐making, dehydration, distress, doctors, encouragement, euthanasia, fluids, HIV, palliating doctor, patients, physicians, professional journals, refractory delirium, self-starvation, suffering, suicide, suicide assistance, syringes, terminal sedation, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Journal Advocates “Terminal Sedation” for People Committing Suicide by Self-Starving

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 30, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Articles in professional journals are a means of constructing future public policy and people need to be warned. Read More ›