Category: Bioethics | Page 3 | Science and Culture Today

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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, Darwinian racism, faith and science, Heritage Foundation, Human Zoos, J. D. Vance, John West, Nazis, New York Post, Nick Fuentes, phenotype, Psalms, Race Realism, Racism, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, Tucker Carlson, Turning Point USA, Twitter}

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, 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 ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 30, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, authoritarianism, duties, governments, human thriving, Nature, nature rights, organisms}

The Rise of “Green” Authoritarianism

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 30, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics

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This is the most draconian and potentially tyrannical “nature rights” proposal I have yet seen. Read More ›

AI-generated illustration of a human fetus curled up in the womb

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
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, abortion, bioethics, doctors, drug addiction, embryology, fetus, miscarriages, pregnancy, racists, slavery, The New England Journal of Medicine, unborn children, United States, Vermont}

Medical Journal Screed Decries All Fetal Personhood Laws

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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The authors imply that laws that protect unborn children are racist. But pro-lifers want more black babies born and protected from harm, not fewer. Read More ›

Looking and smile elderly woman portrait on a dark background

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
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, Alzheimer’s disease, blood pressure, death, dementia, Ebola, euthanasia, grandchildren, medicine, New York City, prevention, Quebec, Science Alert, Tibi Puiu, vitamin B12, Wall Street Journal, ZME Science}

For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 24, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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I use the term “delay” rather than “prevention” for a reason: It may be that the human brain will inevitably start to break down after a century or so. Read More ›

Futuristic holographic baby in doctor's hand: exploring virtual reality and medical technology

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 23, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, babies, bioethics, Brave New World, cells, children, China, CRISPR, eggs, embryos, gestational carriers, government, men, parents, regulation, reproduction, skin cells, somatic cell nuclear transfer, sperm, women}

Human Reproduction Is Becoming Human Manufacture

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 23, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Making eggs out of skin cells is just the latest example of an accelerating reproductive anarchy that is changing our very culture. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethics, Canada, Charles Camosy, consensus, doctors, George W. Bush, human life, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, Leon Kass, medical ethics, Ontario, orthodoxy, Paul Ramsey, philosophers, President’s Council on Bioethics, professors, public health, public policy, tradition}

Contrary to Claims, Bioethics Is Not a “Moral Tradition”

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 14, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Talk about a “heads we win, tails you lose” consensus that can drive Hippocratic physicians out of the profession. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 26, 2025

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Tagged
, activism, assisted dying, assisted suicide, children, coercion, disability rights, England, equality, gender ideology, Harry Potter, liberals, physicians, popular culture, prevention, suicidal people, Wales, women}

J. K. Rowling Comes Out Against Legalized Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 26, 2025

Arts, Bioethics

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Two of the core tenets of liberalism are (supposed to be) protecting vulnerable people from exploitation and promoting equality among all people. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, advocacy, dams, flowing, Great Lakes, intelligentsia, nature rights, neo-pagan mysticism, Pachamama, rivers, water}

Nature Right Pushes Neo-Pagan Mysticism at Highest Academic Levels

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 25, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism

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Most recently, the Harvard Kennedy School hosted a symposium on “nature rights” undergirded by “indigenous knowledge.” Read More ›

Hands of an elderly man resting on a walking cane

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, advance directive, Alzheimer’s disease, antibiotics, dementia, hospice, killing, nursing, palliative care, patients, suffering, suicide, Thaddeus Mason Pope}

Will We Care For or Kill Dementia Patients?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 21, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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I understand that people are terrified of dementia. Believe me, I get it. My mother died of Alzheimer’s. Read More ›