Category: Bioethics | Page 6 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, abortion, drugs, EPA, fetuses, metabolites}

Glass of Water? Think Twice

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 21, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Reproductive Science

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Our water treatment plants are not equipped to process human tissue nor necessarily to remove metabolized mifepristone (metabolites) used in abortion pills. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 9, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, bacteria, Darwinism, David Bentley Hart, evil, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, good, group selection, kin selection, Lisbon earthquake, mourning, natural selection, PZ Myers, reciprocal altruism, summer camp, theodicy, Voltaire}

The Challenge to Darwinism from Camp Mystic

_{Michael Egnor
July 9, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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One of the most tragic events I can remember happened this July 4th — a flash flood killed nearly 200 people, 27 of whom were children and staff at Camp Mystic. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethics, children, Christof Koch, conception, Denyse O'Leary, human beings, in vitro fertilization, IVF, Michael Shermer, organ donors, persons, Piers Morgan, Roman Catholicism, soldiers, The Immortal Mind}

A Disagreement with Shermer on the Ethics of IVF

_{Michael Egnor
July 8, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

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It is quite possible to seek good ends (children) by bad means (their industrial manufacture). These are very real concerns. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ecology
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambridge University, Ecuador, fauna, flora, geological features, humans, indigenous people, Judeo-Christian tradition, microbes, mountains, nature rights, neo-pagan mysticism, United Nations, volcanoes, Western civilization}

Earth-Religion Mysticism Permeates Academia

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 8, 2025

Bioethics, Ecology, Evolution

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The just cause of reasonably protecting nature has been co-opted into a radical international movement to subvert Western civilization. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, chemistry, Christianity, Dante Alighieri, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, intelligence, J. B. S. Haldane, John Milton, Lord Monboddo, Mars, race, science fiction, scientific racism, scientists, The Descent of Man, Third Reich, UNESCO}

The End of Scientific Racism

_{Daniel Witt
June 24, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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J. B. S. Haldane initially subscribed to some of the racism of the era — but, to his credit, his views shifted over time as more evidence came to light. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 20, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, aborigines, Africans, Alfred Russel Wallace, apes, Asia, Australia, Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle, Indonesia, Isaac Newton, Lord Monboddo, man, Racism, scientific racism, The Descent of Man, Tierra del Fuego, William Shakespeare}

How Darwin Recruited Racism to His Theory

_{Daniel Witt
June 20, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution

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Charles Darwin formulated his theory at a time when it was commonly assumed that different races of humans had different natural levels of intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, billionaires, China, environment, environmentalism, glaciers, heat, Homo sapiens, human exceptionalism, human rights, human uniqueness, humans, nature, nature rights, oceans, Oxford University, plastics, trees, United Nations}

UN Pushes Nature Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 18, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights stated in a recent speech at Oxford University that nature rights are equivalent to human rights. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, competition, death, Department of Health and Human Services, families, government, hospice, Humanize, palliative care, patients}

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
, courts, flowing, law, natural world, nature, nature rights, Notre Dame Cathedral, Olympics, personhood, pollution, rights, 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
, anti-humanism, China, ecosystems, endangered species, glaciers, human exceptionalism, human rights, human thriving, humankind, lawfare, mountain, 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 ›