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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bioethics, breastbone, choking, circulatory death, coma, dead donor rule, death, Department of Health and Human Services, doctors, Health Resources and Services Administration, heart death, kidney, Misty Hawkins, Munchkins, New York Times, nonprofits, organ procurement organizations, organ-harvesting, overdose, patients, Pittsburgh Protocol, Thunder Beach Motorcycle Rally, ventilator}

Organ-Procurement Goofs Threaten Trust

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August 4, 2025

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The “dead donor rule” is the cement that binds the public’s trust in organ transplant medicine. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, abortion, assisted suicide, Australia, bioethics, British Columbia, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, Ezekiel Emanuel, health care, health professionals, Hippocratic moral values, Hippocratic Oath, hospice, hospitals, human life, Julian Savulescu, medical conscience, medical school, medical values, medicine, nurses, nursing homes, nursing school, Ontario, patients, transgenderism}

Attacks on Medical Conscience Will Force Doctors to Take Human Life

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July 25, 2025

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Destroying conscience will inhibit talented people with particular moral or religious beliefs from entering medical and nursing schools. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, abortion, abortion pills, chemical abortions, congressional hearings, drinking water, drugs, EPA, fetal biomass, fetuses, human tissue, Liberty Counsel Action, metabolites, microplastic, mifepristone, sewer system, surgical abortions, wastewater, water contamination, water supply, water systems, water treatment}

Glass of Water? Think Twice

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July 21, 2025

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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
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 18, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, biology, cancer, Evolution News, faith and science, humans, ID the Future, intentionality, materialism, mechanism, mechanistic view, medical school, molecular level, oncologists, organisms, physical law, physical world, podcast, purpose, random processes, Stephen Iacoboni, Stuart Kauffman, Telos: The Scientific Basis for a Life of Purpose, Thomistic philosophy}

Stephen Iacoboni: Finding Purpose in Medicine and Science

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July 18, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Ultimately, Dr. Iacoboni aims to help his fellow physicians escape the “suffocating boundaries of mechanism and materialism.” Read More ›

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Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, After (book), aneurysm, brain, Bruce Greyson, hypercarbia, hypoxia, Leeds Beckett University, Marilyn A. Mendoza, medical literature, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, near-death experiences, O’Leary, Pam Reynolds, Phoenix, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Steve Taylor, suicide, surgery, The Immortal Mind, Tulane University, University of Virginia, veridical}

To Skeptics, Four Challenges on Near-Death Experiences

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July 14, 2025

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Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary devote Chapter 6 to addressing various efforts to debunk near-death experiences. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Angela Lo, brain, dementia, dying, immaterial powers, justice, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, moral choice, music, paradoxical lucidity, perception, reason, rementia, Stephen Post, Stony Brook University, Supreme Court, The Immortal Mind, veterans}

Dementia Hints That the Brain Is Not All There Is to the Mind

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July 11, 2025

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People with dementia have severe memory issues, along with motor, perception, and emotional disabilities, and that curtails their powers of reason. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethics, chattel slaves, children, Christian bioethics, Christof Koch, conception, Denyse O'Leary, human beings, in vitro fertilization, industrial manufacture, IVF, Michael Shermer, organ donors, persons, Piers Morgan, Roman Catholicism, sexual slaves, Skeptic (podcast), soldiers, The Immortal Mind}

A Disagreement with Shermer on the Ethics of IVF

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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
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 7, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 4th of July, americans, atheists, blueberries, Christof Koch, CNN, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute, faith and science, fireworks, Gaza, Independence Day, Israel, journalists, July 4, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, near-death experiences, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Roman Catholics, Scripture, Seattle, skeptics, Sunday Times, The Immortal Mind, YouTube videos}

World’s “Best-Known Journalist” Meets Michael Egnor

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July 7, 2025

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Piers Morgan, who is Catholic, says he already believed in life after death from faith and Scripture. What he wanted, he said, was scientific evidence for it. Read More ›

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Date
June 26, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheists, birth canal, brain-stem aneurysm, carbon-dioxide spikes, Carl Sagan, Carol Zaleski, clinical death, Denyse O'Leary, endorphins, Gandalf, Howard Storm, hypoxia, jesus, ketamine, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, My Descent into Death, near-death experiences, neurosurgery, Pam Reynolds, podcast, psychedelic chemistry, Robert J. Marks II, Robert Spetzler, skull, Stony Brook University, temporal-lobe seizures, The Immortal Mind, The Lord of the Rings, veridical}

Near-Death Experiences Give Scientific Evidence of the Soul

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June 26, 2025

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As Dr. Egnor contends, near-death experiences offer modern, experiential evidence that the human mind is not confined to the skull. Read More ›

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Date
June 26, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Allen Institute for Brain Science, appetite, Aristotle, brain, Christof Koch, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, Dogs, guilt, Heaven, humans, intellect, Israel, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, neuroscience, pets, reason, Roman Catholic, Seattle, soul, The Immortal Mind}

Egnor and Koch Debate the Soul…and Talk Dogs

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June 26, 2025

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Here are two highlights that give some sense of the scope and tenor of the debate. Read More ›