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February 25, 2025

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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, American Council for Science and Health, artificial intelligence, Belgium, bias, chatbot, climate change, Gary Smith, hallucination, medicine, neuroscience, privacy, psychiatry, safety, Stanford University, suicide}

Replace Psychiatrists with AI?

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February 25, 2025

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"A Belgian man, after weeks of dialogues with his chatbot 'confidante,' committed suicide after it encouraged him to sacrifice himself for climate change." Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

Date
February 24, 2025

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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, alien hand syndrome, awareness, brain damage, brains, consciousness, information theory, materialism, minds, of, split-brain surgery, St. Augustine, volition, Yair Pinto}

“Multiple Minds” in Split-Brain Patients?

_{Michael Egnor
February 24, 2025

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The scientific obsession with “split minds” is an artifact of our materialist preconceptions about neuroscience. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

Date
February 20, 2025

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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, brain, brain surgery, Cornell University, illusion, Justine Sergent, neuroscience, personality, Psyche, religions, scalpel, selfhood, soul, split-brain surgery, Yair Pinto}

Split-Brain Surgeries Reveal Reality of the Soul

_{Michael Egnor
February 20, 2025

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This is not only the perennial teaching of the great religions, but the evidence of the best neuroscience. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 19, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animal rights, CRISPR, Davos, discrimination, environmentalism, Europe, fauna, flora, genetic engineering, genocide, germ line, humanity, mammals, Munich, nature rights, oppression, PETA, rights, slavery}

Defending Human Exceptionalism in Munich

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February 19, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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This matters tremendously because human exceptionalism is the necessary predicate to universal human rights. Read More ›

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February 14, 2025

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Bioethics
Medicine
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, Ajit Varki, authors, COVID-19, editors, Food and Drug Administration, Great Barrington Declaration, Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, National Institutes of Health, Science (journal), Sunetra Gupta}

Who’s Afraid of This New Science Journal?

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February 14, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Skeptics worry that the new journal "will be used to sow doubt about scientific consensus." Read More ›

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February 3, 2025

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Medicine
Scientific Freedom
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, AIDS, americans, Anthony Fauci, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19, herd immunity, hospitalizations, immunology, infection, Joe Biden, Maryland, pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert R. Redfield, truth, vaccine, vaccine mandates, viruses, Wesley J. Smith}

In Covid Response, Government Did Not Trust the People with Information

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February 3, 2025

Medicine, Scientific Freedom

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Ex-CDC director Robert Redfield explores the issue of trust in public health — and its loss — with Wesley J. Smith. Read More ›

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January 29, 2025

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Bioethics
Medicine
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, CIA, COVID-19, government, health, HIV, lab leak, Maryland, medicine, mRNA vaccines, public health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert R. Redfield, safety, Vaccines, virologists}

Former CDC Director: What Worked, What Didn’t, with Covid

_{Science and Culture
January 29, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Wesley J. Smith interviewed Robert R. Redfield on the public health disasters brought on by Covid and the reasons for the loss of trust in public health. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, consciousness, David Chalmers, Delusion, George Musser, hard problem of consciousness, human consciousness, Nautilus, neuroscientists, psychiatric disorders, psychologists}

Scientists Examining Consciousness — Here’s the Problem

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 27, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Many researchers do like to write about consciousness and here are two recent contributions to the accessible literature. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, atheism, culture, dignity, human life, life, Nat Hentoff, oppression, The Guardian, tyranny}

This Close: Almost Embracing Sanctity of Life

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January 18, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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It is always good to see someone wrestling with truth. Sonia Sodha is on the way to an important understanding. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, authority, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge, COVID-19, culture, denial, England, John West, lockdowns, pandemic, scientism, United States, worship}

John West: How C. S. Lewis Anticipated Our Experience of Scientism

_{David Klinghoffer
January 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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I was shocked during Covid by the way healthy respect for science shaded rapidly into cowering submission and unquestioning scientistic worship of authority. Read More ›