Category: Ethics | Page 13 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 28, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academia, beliefs, Center for Science and Culture, COVID-19, Donald Trump, epidemiologists, Evangelical Christians, faith and science, fear, Francis Collins, Jay Bhattacharya, John West, media, National Institutes of Health, Politico, promotions, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity}

Congratulations to Jay Bhattacharya, Replacing Francis Collins at NIH!

_{David Klinghoffer
March 28, 2025

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How can our country get more Bhattacharyas and fewer Collinses? That is one way of phrasing the question that Dr. West sets out to answer. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 26, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Tagged
, abortion, advance directive, Arthur Caplan, assisted suicide, culture of death, dehydration, disability rights, euthanasia, fluids, food, gender-affirming care, Humanize, Michael Schiavo, parents, pro-life movement, Roe v. Wade, self-starvation and dehydration, Terri Schiavo, vaccine mandates, water}

Schiavo Case Was a Terrible Cultural Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 26, 2025

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting

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The case elevated the culture of death into a conflagration. It boosted the passage of assisted suicide laws. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Cleveland, culture, Darwinism, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, evolutionary theory, humans, John West, life, mankind, misanthropy, molecular biologists, political scientists, Sean McDowell, self-hatred, University of Texas}

West: Why We Can’t “Just Make Peace with Darwin”

_{David Klinghoffer
March 25, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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Watch this and then ask a Darwinist friend if he or she can think of one way that the evolutionary perspective has ennobled or uplifted anyone. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Psychology
Sociology
Tagged
, anxiety, college students, crying, Office of Naval Research, persistent scientific errors, prisoners, psychologists, public policy, Retraction Crisis, Retraction Watch, self-correcting, social psychology, Stanford University, University of Calgary}

Retract the Stanford Prison Experiment?

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 21, 2025

Bioethics, Psychology, Sociology

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Beware of wildly popular sociology that tells us that our public policy preferences are somehow embedded in human nature. Life was never as simple as that. Read More ›

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Date
March 19, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, China, COVID-19, disease, epidemiologists, Italy, lockdowns, pandemic, political scientists, Princeton University, Princeton University Press, progressives, World Health Organization}

Princeton Scholars Deliver Hard Truths About Covid Policies

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March 19, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Princeton political scientists Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee have just published a book highly critical of COVID pandemic policies. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, babies, fish, gestating human babies, image of God, insects, invertebrates, life, mammals, microbes, moral responsibility, NYU, philosophers, universe}

Microbes as “Moral Agents”? Bioethicist Says Yes

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 14, 2025

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, animal experiments, animals, chimpanzees, Edward Taub, elephants, First Amendment, illnesses, Ingrid Newkirk, journalists, National Institutes of Health, Nonhuman Rights Project, persons, PETA, Silver Spring Monkey Case, writ of habeas corpus}

PETA Sues NIH for Violating Its “First Amendment Right” to Talk to Monkeys

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 13, 2025

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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There is not one modern medical treatment or intervention that does not involve animal research at some point in the process. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, accessibility, activism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Free Science, free speech, government, Great Barrington Declaration, ideology, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, misinformation, National Institutes of Health, Politics, protests, research funding, scientism, scientocracy, Stand Up for Science, Sunetra Gupta, universities}

Stand Up for Science or… for Naked Ideology?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2025

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom

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“Stand Up for Science 2025” protests were clearly aimed at reaffirming control by the now discredited science establishment. Read More ›

NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., speaks at the 2017 Rare Disease Day at NIH.

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Author
John G. West

Date
March 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, censorship, COVID-19, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Evangelical Christians, federal funding, Francis Collins, government, mandates, National Institutes of Health, persecution, progressives, scientific research, secularists, Stand Up for Science, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, United States}

Francis Collins Stands Up for DEI, High Overhead, and Unethical Research?

_{John G. West
March 10, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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At least Collins has made it harder to ignore his real agenda by appearing at this partisan political rally. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 6, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, body parts, Center for Medical Progress, children, Christianity, Christianity Today, Christians, COVID-19, David Daleiden, embryos, Evangelical Christians, Francis Collins, gestation, Holy Spirit, infants, jesus, John the Baptist, John West, Judicial Watch, National Institutes of Health, Nicene Creed, Stockholm Syndrome, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Sweden, unborn, University of Pittsburgh}

Stockholm Syndrome: Francis Collins and the Unborn

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 6, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

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Collins is a role model for aspiring young Christians, right? John West says, not so fast. Read More ›