Category: Medicine

Male doctor holding female patient hand on the hospital bed.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animal testing, animals, Anthony Fauci, assisted suicide, bioethics, biopsies, blood draws, California, cancer, cures, euthanasia, HIV, human body, illness, Last Gift, life expectancy, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Nuremberg Code, organ farms, Peter Singer, San Diego County, spinal taps, terminal illness, tissue donation, UC San Diego, utilitarianism, viral disease, virus}

California Research Experiments on People with “Life-Shortening” Conditions

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September 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Human beings, regardless of how sick they are or how long they are expected to live, should never be considered less worthy of protection than are animals. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, amputee, Anthony Kennedy, arms, Body Identity Integrity Disorder, body parts, capacities, culture, Daily Mail, Due Process Clause, insurance fraud, insurance scam, legs, limiting principle, medicine, mental illness, Neil Hopper, Obergefell v. Hodges, paraplegic, personal autonomy, self-definition, self-restraint, sexual obsession, societal expectations, spinal cord, transgender}

Here It Comes: First Transgenderism, Next Transableism

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September 5, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Why is it not also appropriate to cut off unwanted arms or snip spinal cords if that brings emotional relief? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 2, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, body integrity identity disorder, digital twins, disease, doctors, equity, gender-fluidity, government benefits, healing, health insurance, healthcare, Journal of Medical Ethics, medicine, patients, reprogramming, technology, trans identity, transgendeism, transgender people, transhumanists, transition, wellness}

Next: “Digital Twins” as a Matter of “Equity”?

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September 2, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Medicine is no longer just about treating disease, healing injuries, and promoting physical wellness. Read More ›

Low Angle Shot in the Operating Room, Assistant Hands out Instruments to Surgeons During Operation. Surgeons Perform Operation. Professional Medical Doctors Performing Surgery.

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
September 2, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Alice Cronin-Golomb, atheism, brain, brain surgery, brain tumor, Christianity, concepts, Denyse O’Leary, hemispheres, left frontal lobe, materialism, medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, MIT, morality, music, near-death experiences, Netherlands, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Nobel Prize, painting, reason, Roger Sperry, seizures, soul, split-brain surgery, surgery, The Immortal Mind, thoughts, violin, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Abstract Thought Comes from the Mind, Not the Brain

_{John Zmirak
September 2, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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We can cut perceptional abilities with a knife, but we can’t cut reason and abstract thought. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 1, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Medicine
Tagged
, biological information, body, coherence, daily life, death, Discovery Institute Press, engineering, engineers, Howard Glicksman, human body, interdependence, life, medicine, oxygenation, physicians, Secrets of the Human Body, Stephen Meyer, Steve Laufmann, Your Amazing Body}

Your Body’s Secrets, Revealed in a New Series and a Companion Book

_{David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2025

Engineering, Medicine

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It may seem like a morbid thought, pondering the billions of ways something in your body could “go wrong,” fatally, and then “you’re dead.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, cancer, cancer research, Casey Luskin, cure, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, devolution, diseases, evolution, inhibitor mechanisms, intelligent design, Karl Krueger, machinery, Michael Behe, molecular leveI, National Cancer Institute, novel function, scientists}

What Cancer Reveals About the Limits of Darwinian Evolutionary Processes

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August 28, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Dr. Karl Krueger explains what led him to become a skeptic of Darwinian evolution and why he thinks ID can better explain the behavior and effects of cancer. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, adults, assisted suicide, bioethics, Canada, Daily Mail, disabled, euthanasia, Groningen protocol, infant euthanasia, infanticide, infants, killing, Netherlands, Peter Singer, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Netherlands Already Allows Infanticide, So Why Not Canada?

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August 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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In a more righteous world, allowing infanticide would make the Netherlands a pariah nation, but we have become morally stunted in the West. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science Reporting
Tagged
, American Medical Association, Arthur Caplan, Behind the Black, Bobby Mukkamala, Cross-Check, Eric Weinstein, expert opinion, John Horgan, Lawrence Krauss, Leif Le Mahieu, lobotomy, mastectomies, media, mental illness, New York University, News, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Robert Sapolsky, Robert Zimmerman, Royal Society, Sabine Hossenfelder, science communicators, Sean Carroll, Texas Children’s Hospital, The Daily Wire, The End of Science, transgenderism, trust}

Science Struggles with Reality as Crises Rock Disciplines

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Science Reporting

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There seems to be little relationship between many science writers’ current concerns and the reasons that public trust in science has been steadily declining. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 26, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Psychology
Tagged
, abortion, abortionists, Canada, choice, comorbidity, hallucinogen, hospitalization, induced abortion, Journal of Psychiatric Research, medical journals, medicine, mental health, pregnant women, pro-life movement, psychiatric disorders, Quebec, risk, substance use, women}

Study: Mental Illness More Likely After Abortion than After Childbirth

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August 26, 2025

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At the very least, if informed consent and “choice” are to mean anything, abortionists should be duty-bound to inform pregnant women about this particular risk. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, academics, animals, Anthony Fauci, biologists, COVID-19, curriculum, disease, doctors, ecologists, ecosystems, health, human existence, humans, infirmity, intelligentsia, nurses, One Health, people, pharmacists, policy, public health, technocrats, The Lancet, veterinarians, well-being, Wesley J. Smith}

Redefining Health to Impose International Technocracy

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 18, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Technology

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The public-health intelligentsia and bioethics movement are determined to become the primary policy decision makers internationally. Read More ›