Category: Bioethics | Page 14 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 29, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain damage, brains, circulation, death, emergency room, Lucid Dying, Nature (journal), neuroscience, nutrients, oxygen, oxygenation, pigs, resuscitation, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, Yale University}

Pig Brains Thought Dead May Be Revived

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July 29, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Pigs are considered useful biomedical models for humans so the implications of such studies sent waves through the field of resuscitation — and bioethics. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 19, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, California, Canada, death, doctors, dying, MAiD, medical ethics, oncology, patients}

MDs Support Expanding Assisted Suicide Beyond the Terminally Ill

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 19, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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The myth that legal assisted suicide is about terminal illness is becoming harder to swallow. Evidence can be found in a recent survey. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 19, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, AIDS, Anthony Fauci, CDC, City Journal, COVID-19, diseases, FDA, Francis Collins, James B. Meigs, Jay Bhattacharya, journalists, lawmakers, power, public policy, scientists, vaccine mandates}

What Turned an Esteemed Doctor into a Scheming Authoritarian?

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 19, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Fauci damaged his own reputation by trashing sound scientists, denouncing inconvenient evidence, and even going so far as to say “I represent science.” Read More ›

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Date
July 17, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, “consensus science”, chatbots, Gary Smith, junk science, large language models, Massimo Pigliucci, p-hacking, pseudoscience, science, settled science}

Three Genuine Tells of Junk Science

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July 17, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Scientific Trustworthiness

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This comes to us hard on the heels of philosopher Massimo Pigliucci’s effort to identify “pseudoscience.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Christians, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, faith and science, firearms, intelligent design, John Zmirak, Michael Behe, Michelangelo, Second Amendment, Stephen Meyer, The Stream, U.S. Constitution, William A. Dembski}

Darwinism Versus the Second Amendment

_{David Klinghoffer
July 9, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The "moral accountability" Zmirak mentions may be the key. Only a morally accountable being can be entrusted with a firearm. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 8, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, forests, humans, mountains, nature rights, rivers, Wyoming}

More “Nature Rights” Virtue Signaling, Now in Jackson, Wyoming

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 8, 2024

Bioethics, Botany, Life Sciences

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So, wise city councilors: Do the plants in the ponds have a right not to be eaten by the moose? Do grubs have a right not to be consumed by black bears? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 3, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, American Founding, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, genocide, history, Independence Day, intelligent design, John West, Martin Luther King Jr., Nazi Germany, Nazism, scientific racism, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Washington DC}

Watch: For July 4th, an Intelligent Design-Themed Tour of Washington, DC

_{David Klinghoffer
July 3, 2024

Bioethics, Intelligent Design

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The whole city is a memorial to the ideas that inspired the American Founding. One of those is intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 29, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, abortion, babies, Denmark, Down syndrome, Iceland, Neanderthals, Peter Singer, The Guardian, United States}

Neanderthals Cared for Down Syndrome Children

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 29, 2024

Bioethics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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It may now be that more babies with Down syndrome are killed in the womb than are born. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 20, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, angels, animals, Bruce Chapman, Center for Science and Culture, creator, drug addiction, George Gilder, harm reduction, homelessness, human being, Humanize, humans, intelligent design, Jonathan Choe, journalism, mental illness, Steven Buri, think tank, vision, Wesley J. Smith}

Steven Buri, Wesley Smith: What Is a Human Being?

_{David Klinghoffer
June 20, 2024

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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That politicians and activists can watch their fellow men wallow in degradation this way is itself a twisted tribute to human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 15, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, autistism, Canada, Compassion and Choices, death, dying, euthanasia, Hemlock Society, hospice, slippery slope, suicide, VSED}

Euthanize Me, or I’ll Starve Myself to Death

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 15, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Allowing euthanasia and/or assisted suicide unleashes drastic desires in suffering individuals. Read More ›