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Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 3, 2025

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Medicine
Scientific Freedom
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, “consensus science”, americans, authoritarianism, conformity, COVID-19, crime, drunk driving, Ethan Siegel, expertise, freedom, hospitals, hubris, humility, ideology, lockdowns, military, punishment, schools, security, Supreme Court, vaccine mandates, Vaccines}

Far from Chastened by Reality, Scientific Authoritarians Are Doubling Down

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March 3, 2025

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Ethan Siegel, an astrophysicist and award-winning science writer, advocates for criminally and civilly punishing violators of the “scientific consensus.” Read More ›

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Date
February 27, 2025

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Bioethics
Medicine
Metascience
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, artificial intelligence, California, chatbots, China, Elisabeth Bik, errors, Ethiopia, India, investigation, large language models, misconduct, mistakes, Nature (journal), Pakistan, physicians, Research, research integrity, research misconduct, researchers, Retraction Crisis, Saudi Arabia, universities}

China Leads the World in Retracted Science Papers

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February 27, 2025

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Seven of the Top Ten retraction hotspots are in China but India, Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia also make an appearance. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 27, 2025

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Bioethics
Medicine
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, doctors, global warming, health care, Journal of the American Medical Association, journals, medicine, patients, Politics, The Lancet}

Claim: Only Doctors Can Prevent Global Warming

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February 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Science, medical, and bioethics journals are setting themselves up as the new political resistance. Read More ›

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Date
February 25, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 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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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 24, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 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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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 20, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 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

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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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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Author
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

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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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Date
February 3, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, 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

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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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Date
January 29, 2025

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Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, 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

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January 29, 2025

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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 ›