Category: Bioethics | Page 5 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, competition, Dame Cecily Saunders, death, Department of Health and Human Services, Dying Well, families, government, health system, hospice, Humanize, living, palliative care, Palliative Medicine Reports, patients, quality, total pain}

As Assisted Suicide Looms, How to Save Hospice

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Often now people approach me after a speech or call in on talk radio to tell me that they do not trust hospice to properly care for their loved ones. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 7, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Council of Paris, courts, flowing, French Parliament, Is a River Alive?, law, Louvre, natural world, nature, nature rights, nature rights movement, Notre Dame Cathedral, Olympics, personhood, pollution, rights, Robert Macfarlane, Seine, water}

A “Right to Flow”: River Rights for the Seine?

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 7, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Life Sciences

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Even nonessential activities could be blocked by pretending that the Seine is a person. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Alfred Kobacker and Elizabeth Trimbach Fund, anti-humanism, China, ecosystems, endangered species, enforcement, glaciers, habitats, human exceptionalism, human rights, human thriving, humankind, International Day for Biological Diversity, lawfare, mountain, National Geographic Society, nature rights, rivers, waves}

“Nature Rights” Hits the Big Time

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 24, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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The National Geographic Society — one of the world’s largest and most influential science organizations — is going to pour money into the movement. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Psychology
Tagged
, biology, biphobia, Charles Darwin, evolution, historians, homophobia, natural, Nature, nihilism, purpose, sexual liberation, sexuality, transphobia, unnatural, Wikipedia, Yuval Noah Harari}

Harari: “Darwin Is the Prophet”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 18, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Psychology

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I’ve never heard evolution and nihilism connected so clearly and concisely, and the implications vastly exceed sexuality. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, advocacy, American Journal of Bioethics, assisted suicide, bioethicists, bioethics, climate change, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), gender ideology, hospitals, medical school, medicine, patients, Paul Ramsey, policy, United Nations, utilitarianism}

Bioethics Becomes Just Another Social-Justice Political Movement

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 13, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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A new study illustrates how bioethics is not (and, indeed, never has been) an area of objective professional expertise. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 28, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, awareness, BBC News, birth, brain activity, cancel culture, Centers for Disease Control, Christof Koch, consciousness, Hatty Willmoth, Joel Frohlich, Pew Research, Research, Science Focus, stimuli, third rail, Tim Bayne, United States, viability}

Consciousness in Unborn Children: Touching the Third Rail

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 28, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Leading neuroscientist Christof Koch became a target of Cancel Culture in part because his popular theory of consciousness might threaten the right to abortion. Read More ›

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Date
April 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Planetology
Tagged
, American Council for Science and Health, Anil Potti, Cameron English, chemistry, conservatives, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, distrust, Duke University, EPA, fraud, funding, government, Harvard University, Inspector Clouseau, Journal of the American Medical Association, Mount Sinai Hospital, National Institute on Aging, Parkinson’s disease, pesticides, Proxima Centauri, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Samuel Gandy, Science (journal), taxpayers, Wall Street Journal, Woo-Suk Hwang, ZME Science}

Should Science Be Publicly Funded at All?

_{Science and Culture
April 25, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Planetology

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Waste, futility, and fraud are too frequent outcomes of taxpayer funding. Private funding could well be more intelligently directed. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adrian Owen, awareness, brain, brain activity, brain blood flow, brain death, brain injury, dualism, evidence, failed predictions, fMRI, functional MRI, mannerisms, materialism, mental states, mind, persistent vegetative state, predictions, Science (journal), speech, tennis, vegetative state, walking}

Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions

_{Michael Egnor
April 24, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animals, anthropocentrism, biocentrism, disabilities, embryo, environment, environmental regulations, Evolution News, human development, human exceptionalism, humankind, humans, nature, nature rights, Pope Francis, Roman Catholic, sanctity of life}

Pope Francis Embraced Human Exceptionalism

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 21, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism

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The idea of unique human value and concomitant duties are the core of human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science Reporting
Tagged
, assisted suicide, bioethics, Cell (journal), cells, embryo research, embryos, ethicists, fertilization, fetal farming, humans, New York Times, nonpersons, organ harvesting, patients, petri dish, redefinition, stem cells, zygote}

“Expedience Bioethics” Busts Moral Limits

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 18, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Science Reporting

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When embryonic research first started, we were told that there would be a strict 14-day limit on researching embryos in petri dishes. Read More ›