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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 3, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, __cedited, Britain, CRISPR, epigenetics, family, Joseph Fletcher, ovum, procreation, sperm, transhumanism, University of Cambridge, uterus}

Here’s a Recipe for Procreative Anarchy

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 3, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine, Technology

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Artificial sperm offer the transhumanist dream of radical individualistic procreation, baby manufacture, and radical family restructuring. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 19, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, birth, Daily Mail, embryo, IVF, mother}

After 24 Years as a Frozen Embryo, a Baby Is Born

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 19, 2017

Bioethics, Biology, Life Sciences, Medicine

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I think this story should affect the way we look at the moral value of frozen IVF embryos. Read More ›

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Date
December 19, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, __cedited, __image, 3D printing, bacteria, Biomimetics, blood vessels, DNA, engineers, humans, intelligent design, microorganisms, plagiarism, proteins, Research, ribosomes, RNA, Science Advances, Wesley J. Smith}

Flink Fast! Here’s a Biodesign Paper for Happy ID Holidays

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December 19, 2017

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Medicine, Technology

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Two highly complex creatures, humans and bacteria, team up for a new future, using 3D printing with “functional living ink” — Flink. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 17, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, assisted suicide, Death with Dignity, dignity, disabilities, disabled, dying, elderly, isolation, love, New York Times, Oregon, pain, poison}

Bruni “Gets It” on Disability Bias — Except for Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 17, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

When New York Times columnist Frank Bruni isn’t driving me nuts, it’s usually because he’s on vacation from his (very well written) column. Read More ›

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Date
December 13, 2017

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __nedited, Benjamin Libet, craniopagus twins, eyes, ID the Future, Krista Hogan, limbs, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, Roger Sperry, Tatiana Hogan, thalamus, vision, wakefulness, Wilder Penfield}

Listen: What Craniopagus Twins Say about Mind and Brain

_{Science & Culture
December 13, 2017

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Neurosurgery professor Michael Egnor explores the amazing case of Tatiana and Krista Hogan. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 8, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, China, eugenics, history, ID the Future, Nazi Germany, podcast, Research, Todd Butterfield, Wesley Smith}

China Shows Eugenics Is Not a Thing of the Past

_{David Klinghoffer
December 8, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

1}

As a tyranny, China is a Wild West of sorts for unethical science, with the government and its researchers answering to no one. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
November 24, 2017

Categories
Botany
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __cedited, abstract thought, animals, Benjamin Libet, brain, craniopagus twins, David Klinghoffer, Denyse O'Leary, documentary, Krista Hogan, matter, mind, neuroscience, physiology, Roger Sperry, soul, spirit, Tatiana Hogan, Thomistic dualism, Wilder Penfield}

What the Craniopagus Twins Teach Us About the Mind and the Brain

_{Michael Egnor
November 24, 2017

Botany, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Tatiana and Krista Hogan's shared and individual powers of mind are just what Thomistic dualism predicts. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
November 21, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, data, evolution, evolutionary biology, John Ioannidis, medicine, narrative gloss, Nautilus, Philip Ball, Research, science, skepticism, Stanford University, storytelling, University of Virginia}

Science on the Rocks

_{Sarah Chaffee
November 21, 2017

Evolution, Life Sciences, Medicine

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Perhaps confidence in science can, at times, undermine science itself. How much real history has evolutionary storytelling obscured? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 19, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, assisted suicide, correlation, death certificate, homicide, physician, statistics, suicide, Switzerland, Washington State}

Assisted Suicide Should Be Included in Suicide Statistics

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 19, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

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Here are illustrations from Washington State, and from Switzerland. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, assisted suicide, Belgium, crime, culture of death, despair, homicide, medicine, murder, psychiatry, The Guardian}

The Story of Mark van Dongen

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

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This is an awful story but it shows how the assisted suicide movement greatly harms the culture and despairing individuals at their times of greatest vulnerability. Read More ›