Category: Medicine

Drunk homeless man covered his face with his hands and sits on the stairs in the underpass, black and white photo.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Debra J. Saunders, drug abuse, drug abusers, Executive Order, feces, harm causation, harm reduction, HIV, human dignity, Joshua Barocas, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Market Street, medicine, mental illness, needle exchange, overdose, personal autonomy, playgrounds, public policies, safe injection sites, San Francisco, sidewalks, syringe-services programs, The New England Journal of Medicine, Trump Administration, Union Square}

“Harm Reduction” Harms the Homeless

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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San Francisco was allowing harm reducers to give away “starter kits” to people so they could begin injecting drugs! Read More ›

Expérience de mort imminente autrement appelé EMI

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, clarity, confusion, Daily Mail, endorphins, enkephalins, geometry, hypoxia, jesus, Ken Drinkwater, ketamine, Manchester Metropolitan University, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, Neil Shaw, neuroscience, Olaf Blanke, oxygen, Pam Reynolds, psychology, Sebastian Dieguez, soul, The Immortal Mind, veridical, Wiliam Hunter}

Near-Death Experiences: Explaining vs. Explaining Away

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 12, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The first rule of a scientific approach should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Bo Yang Wang, China, dead, Ezekiel Emanuel, Falon Gong, fetal farming, Fountain of Youth, Harvard Medical School, health, Immortal Dragons, Juan Ponce de León, life-extension, lifespan, longevity, New York Times, political prisoners, Singapore, transhumanism, uploaded, Vadim Gladyshev, well-being, Yip Tszho}

China Jumps on the Transhumanism Train

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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It is said to be is devoting much energy and many resources to the life-extension project. Read More ›

Illustration multiplication of cells in blue

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Date
October 30, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, biology, brain cells, brains, cells, Christof Koch, Darwinism, information, kidney cells, kidneys, learning, memory, neuroscientists, Nikolay V. Kukushkin, panpsychism, philosophy of biology, skull, Tibi Puiu, TIME, ZME Science}

Researchers Find Memory Outside the Brain

_{Science and Culture
October 30, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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It it is very difficult to look at the natural world seriously and not see a mind in there somewhere. Read More ›

AI-generated illustration of a human fetus curled up in the womb

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, bioethics, black babies, demagoguery, doctors, Dorothy Roberts, drug addiction, ectopic pregnancy, embryology, fetal homicide, fetal personhood, fetus, Killing the Black Body, medical conditions, miscarriages, pregnancy, pro-life laws, pro-lifers, racists, slaveholders, slavery, substance abusers, The New England Journal of Medicine, unborn children, United States, Vermont}

Medical Journal Screed Decries All Fetal Personhood Laws

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

The authors imply that laws that protect unborn children are racist. But pro-lifers want more black babies born and protected from harm, not fewer. Read More ›

Looking and smile elderly woman portrait on a dark background

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, blood pressure, C. Everett Koop, cognitive impairment, death, delay, dementia, drug interactions, Ebola, euthanasia, grandchildren, grandmother, health conditions, medicine, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, old-age home, prevention, Quebec, Resolve to Save Lives, Science Alert, Tessa Koumoundouros, The Formula for Better Health, Tibi Puiu, Tom Frieden, urinary tract infection, vitamin B12, Wall Street Journal, ZME Science}

For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 24, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

I use the term “delay” rather than “prevention” for a reason: It may be that the human brain will inevitably start to break down after a century or so. Read More ›

Futuristic holographic baby in doctor's hand: exploring virtual reality and medical technology

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 23, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, babies, Big Fertility, bioethics, Brave New World, cells, children, China, CRISPR, designer babies, eggs, embryos, gestational carriers, government, Katy Faust, manufacture, men, parents, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, regulation, reproduction, skin cells, somatic cell nuclear transfer, sperm, Them Before Us, women}

Human Reproduction Is Becoming Human Manufacture

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 23, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

Making eggs out of skin cells is just the latest example of an accelerating reproductive anarchy that is changing our very culture. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Agustín Fuentes, cancel culture, Carole Hooven, evolutionary biologists, Fox & Friends, gender, gender medicine, Harvard University, Helen Lewis, Princeton University, puberty blockers, Sex Is a Spectrum, Steven Pinker, survival, T: The Story of Testosterone, Tablet, The Atlantic, The Lancet, truth, Washington Post}

In the War on Reality, a Biologist Became a Casualty

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 21, 2025

Evolution, Medicine

5}

Enough people may still believe that the human being is not just an animal and there is such a thing as truth. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 16, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, anticancer, antimicrobial, antioxidant, biochemistry, biochemists, Biola University, biomolecules, biosphere, cancer, curcumin, Darwin Devolves, Discovery Institute, diseases, drugs, flavonoids, humans, intelligent design, Karl Krueger, leaf extract, lutein, lycopene, Magnolia alba, medicine, Michael Behe, nanoparticles, photocatalytic, polyphenols, red grapefruit, Research, Richard Gunasekera, Scientific Reports, side effects, tomato, Tree of Life}

Discovery Institute-Funded Paper in Scientific Reports Applies an ID-Inspired Approach to Cancer

_{Casey Luskin
October 16, 2025

Intelligent Design, Medicine

6}

Humans have bioengineered many drugs to fight cancer. We’ve all seen this: Many cancer drugs may work but they often have devastating side effects. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethics, Canada, Charles Camosy, consensus, doctors, George W. Bush, human life, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, Leon Kass, medical ethics, moral tradition, Ontario, orthodoxy, patient choice, Paul Ramsey, philosophers, President’s Council on Bioethics, professors, progressive politics, public health, public policy, The Emerging Tradition of Secular Bioethics, tradition}

Contrary to Claims, Bioethics Is Not a “Moral Tradition”

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 14, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Talk about a “heads we win, tails you lose” consensus that can drive Hippocratic physicians out of the profession. Read More ›