Category: Bioethics | Page 34 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 19, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, bees, bugs, butterfly, disease, fly, humans, insects, Jonathan Birch, Lars Chittka, larvae, rivers, Wired}

Pushing Insect Welfare

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 19, 2023

Bioethics, Life Sciences

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Of course, we know that insects are not inanimate. A fly senses when you try to swat it. Read More ›

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Author
Nathan Jacobson

Date
March 17, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
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, Alexa, Amazon, Apple, artificial intelligence, China, Google, humor, Internet, speech}

Depths of Design: Talking Boxes

_{Nathan Jacobson
March 17, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Our talking boxes take our requests, run their routines, and send out results but understand nothing, whether or not they’re made in China. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 17, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, correspondence, cruelty, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, dehumanization, evolution, fact check, history, HMS Beagle, James Moore, newspapers, Racism, Robert Fitzroy, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, slaves}

Fact Check: Imagining Darwin’s Abolitionism

_{Robert Shedinger
March 17, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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Desmond and Moore tell us that Darwin assured his sisters that his principles on slavery hadn’t changed despite spending five years living with Captain FitzRoy. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 15, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, AIDS, Anthony Fauci, children, COVID-19, epidemiology, Francis Collins, George W. Bush, Great Barrington Declaration, Harvard University, Jay Bhattacharya, lab leak, Martin Kulldorff, Nature Medicine, NIH, Oxford University, pandemic, public health, public policy, schools, Sunetra Gupta, Washington Post, Wired}

Fauci and Collins Owe the Country an Apology

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 15, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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The harm done unnecessarily to children — their lost time in school, not to mention missed socialization — is a blow from which many will never recover. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 12, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, baby, doctors, embryo, embryology, fetus, mucus, New York Times, patients, photographs, pregnancy, uterus, women}

The “Pregnancy Tissue” Euphemism

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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The last thing that abortion-rights activists want is an accurate description of what a pregnancy termination destroys. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 9, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, abortions, babies, birth defects, chromosomes, egg cells, fathers, human experimentation, humans, mice, mother, procreation, skin cells, stem cells, The Guardian, women}

Mice Born with No Mother, Two Fathers: What Next?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 9, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Technology

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Ostensibly the purpose would be to help with rare forms of infertility in women. But these are dual-edged technologies. Read More ›

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Date
March 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Africans, Charles Darwin, Darwin Comes to Africa, Darwinism, history, ID the Future, indigenous peoples, Olufemi Oluniyi, podcast, Racism, The Descent of Man}

When Darwinian Racism Came to Africa, and to the West

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March 8, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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Olufemi Oluniyi details how Darwinism fueled pseudo-scientific racism against Africans and other indigenous peoples outside the West. Read More ›

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Author
Olufemi Oluniyi

Date
March 6, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Africans, apes, barbarians, Carl Linnaeus, Caucasians, Charles Darwin, ethnicity, evolution, fitness, humans, intelligence, On the Origin of Species, Racism, Richard Weikart, savages, Social Darwinism}

Darwin’s Contribution to Racial Extermination

_{Olufemi Oluniyi
March 6, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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These men and others argued that the logical extrapolation of Darwin’s theory was the extermination of their fellow humans in the name of evolutionary progress! Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
March 3, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, computers, Fox News, future, Futurism, higher education, history, LaMDA, Non-Computable You, podcast, religion, Robert J. Marks II, self-driving cars, Walter Bradley, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, World Economic Forum}

Will AI “Own the World”? Robert J. Marks Talks with Laura Ingraham

_{Peter Biles
March 3, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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In response to those who believe AI will take over the world, Marks says, "Look at history." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 2, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Arkansas, breasts, California, children, lawsuits, malpractice, medical conscience, medical professionals, parents, puberty blocker, surgery, transgenderism}

Medical Malpractice Lawsuits to the Rescue

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 2, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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State legislatures are considering bills to remedy a problem by lengthening their statute of limitations when the procedures were done on minors. Read More ›