Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date November 11, 2014 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Health & Wellness, Research Animal/Human Organ Transplants? Full Speed Ahead! Wesley J. Smith November 11, 2014 Bioethics, Medicine 1 Imagine you need a new heart. A doctor takes some skin cells and then transforms them into pluripotent stem cells. The cells are injected into a pig embryo. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date November 9, 2014 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Health & Wellness, Views Euphemisms Aside, Human Dignity Is Intrinsic Wesley J. Smith November 9, 2014 Bioethics, Medicine 1 Beware movements that engineer words to further their agenda. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date November 6, 2014 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Health & Wellness Until Science Kills Death — Suicide! Wesley J. Smith November 6, 2014 Bioethics, Medicine 1 Good grief. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen has written a ridiculous column about Brittany Maynard. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date November 3, 2014 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Nation, News, Views Brittany Maynard, RIP: We Are Stepping Into an Abyss Michael Egnor November 3, 2014 Bioethics, Medicine 1 The handicapped and the melancholy are next. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date October 30, 2014 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Nation, News, Views Memo to Vultures Wesley J. Smith October 30, 2014 Bioethics, Medicine 1 What CNN says notwithstanding, I criticized the media, not Brittany Maynard. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date October 29, 2014 CategoriesBioethicsFaith & ScienceMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Nation, News Brittany Maynard’s Lethal Prescription Michael Egnor October 29, 2014 Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine 1 She has moved to Oregon, and plans to commit suicide this Saturday, November 1, under Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date September 15, 2014 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Health & Wellness, science Pushing Back Against Human "Dignity Deniers" Wesley J. Smith September 15, 2014 Bioethics, Medicine 1 Human dignity should not need defending. But Jefferson's "self-evident" truths are deemed so no longer. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date September 13, 2014 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Nation, News War on Humans: To Love and Care, or Kill? Wesley J. Smith September 13, 2014 Bioethics, Medicine 1 Sometimes I think the new ethic is to put the very sick out of our misery. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date September 8, 2014 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Research, science War on Humans: Evil People Infect Monkeys with Ebola! Wesley J. Smith September 8, 2014 Bioethics, Medicine 1 Here is why the Nuremberg Code states that animal research is a necessary protection of human rights. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date September 2, 2014 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Views No "Carrots," Please: Taking Pride in V-Word’s "Unrepentant Bigotry" Wesley J. Smith September 2, 2014 Bioethics, Medicine 1 I am on a rather lonely campaign to make the v-word -- "vegetable" -- as unacceptable as the n-word in describing human beings. Read More ›