Category: Bioethics

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, black market, China, crime, Daily Mail, Falun Gong, human organs, human tissues, kidney, living kidney donations, mortuary, murder, Ngor-Okpala, Nigeria, organ-harvesting, political prisoners, Umuhu, Uyghur Muslims}

Purchasers of Black-Market Human Organs Often Complicit in Murder

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 8, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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The black market in human organs does not receive nearly enough attention. China is probably the worst offender. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animals, bioethics, ethics, Harvard University, human exceptionalism, Humanize, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, McCormick Professorship of Jurisprudence, moral value, Oxford University, Phi Beta Kappa, Poland, President’s Council on Bioethics, responsibilities, Robert P. George, Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, UNESCO, World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology}

Robert P. George on the Reality and Importance of Human Exceptionalism

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 8, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Whether or not human beings are exceptional is one of the most important questions of our age. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 6, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, C. S. Lewis, citizens, closed-mindedness, COVID-19, freedom, government, ID the Future, intolerance, John West, natural world, pandemic, physical science, podcast, privacy, public health, science, scientism, scientists, technocracy, The Magician’s Twin}

From C. S. Lewis, Prophetic Warnings on Science and Scientism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 6, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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What happens when science leaves human values behind? Or when governments become beholden to scientists? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, accreditation, Canadian Charter, church, comity, conscience, face coverings, freedom, freedom of worship, mosque, Municipal Powers Act, Ontario, private schools, Quebec, religion, religious freedom, religious schools, religious symbols, secularocracy, synagogue, temple, theocracy}

In Medicine and More, Canada Blazes a Trail to Authoritarianism

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 4, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Some worry about theocracies. But Canada is demonstrating that a secularocracy can be just as suppressing of comity and human freedom. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Zoology
Tagged
, animal rights, birds, capitalism, China, conservation, Current Affairs, environment, fishing, gathering, human exceptionalism, humans, hunters, hunting, insects, Michael Burrows, nature, pollution, prey, reptiles, rodents, socialism, trustees, wild animals, wildlife}

“Multispecies Society”: Get Ready for Wild Animals’ Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 25, 2025

Bioethics, Zoology

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The everything-has-rights radicals admit the truth of human exceptionalism while denying that it exists. Read More ›

Drunk homeless man covered his face with his hands and sits on the stairs in the underpass, black and white photo.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Debra J. Saunders, drug abuse, drug abusers, Executive Order, feces, harm causation, harm reduction, HIV, human dignity, Joshua Barocas, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Market Street, medicine, mental illness, needle exchange, overdose, personal autonomy, playgrounds, public policies, safe injection sites, San Francisco, sidewalks, syringe-services programs, The New England Journal of Medicine, Trump Administration, Union Square}

“Harm Reduction” Harms the Homeless

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

San Francisco was allowing harm reducers to give away “starter kits” to people so they could begin injecting drugs! Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Bo Yang Wang, China, dead, Ezekiel Emanuel, Falon Gong, fetal farming, Fountain of Youth, Harvard Medical School, health, Immortal Dragons, Juan Ponce de León, life-extension, lifespan, longevity, New York Times, political prisoners, Singapore, transhumanism, uploaded, Vadim Gladyshev, well-being, Yip Tszho}

China Jumps on the Transhumanism Train

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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It is said to be is devoting much energy and many resources to the life-extension project. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, Andrew Coyne, assassins, assisted suicide, California, Canada, Donald Trump, euphemisms, Hippocrates, Illinois, Illinois Legislature, illnesses, jurisdictions, medical assistance in dying, New York State, Oregon, Ryan Routh, Vermont, Woody Allen}

United States Is Becoming a Suicide Nation

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 4, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics

2}

We are well on the way now to becoming more like Canada, where we have seen how the euthanasia virus leads to terrible abuses. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Alexander H. Stephens, alt-right, American Renaissance, anti-Semitism, atheists, Ben Shapiro, California, Candace Owens, Christianity, Confederacy, conservatives, Darryl Cooper, Darwinian racism, David Cole, faith and science, Gavin Newsom, Greg Johnson, Groypers, Heritage Foundation, Human Zoos, interns, J. D. Vance, Jared Taylor, John West, Kevin Roberts, Nazis, New York Post, Nick Fuentes, Occidental Observer, phenotype, Psalms, Race Realism, Racism, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, Taki’s Magazine, Tucker Carlson, Turning Point USA, Twitter, Woke Right}

Tucker Carlson and the Second Coming of the Alt-Right

_{David Klinghoffer
November 4, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The Alt-Right did more plundering of pseudo-science, while the Woke Right plunders Christianity while pretending to revere it. Read More ›

Dimly lit laboratory with chemicals and equipment in a vintage, cluttered room

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 31, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, activists, biotech, biotechnology, censorship, culture of death, dignity, embryos, environmentalism, fetal farming, gender dysphoria, gender ideology, genetic engineering, hospitals, human exceptionalism, human life, labs, moral responsibility, nature rights, organ harvesting, totalitarianism, unborn, Wesley J. Smith}

Wesley J. Smith: Frightening Abuses of Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 31, 2025

Bioethics, Technology

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Experiments on the living unborn. Organ harvesting. Reckless biotech. Radical environmentalism. Read More ›