Tag: activists

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 30, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, activists, authoritarianism, bioethicists, bioethics, British Columbia, California, Canada, Catholic moral teaching, Catholic teaching, courts, doctors, Dominion Health, effective referral, euthanasia, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, hospitals, human life, law, medical institutions, medicine, plaintiffs, uterus, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority}

When Doctors’ Faith Loses to Bureaucratic Power

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 30, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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In Canada, the family of a euthanized woman, forced to leave a Catholic hospital to be killed, is seeking to compel Catholic hospitals to permit euthanasia. Read More ›

Dimly lit laboratory with chemicals and equipment in a vintage, cluttered room

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 31, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, activists, biotech, biotechnology, censorship, culture of death, dignity, embryos, environmentalism, fetal farming, gender dysphoria, gender ideology, genetic engineering, hospitals, human exceptionalism, human life, moral responsibility, nature rights, organ harvesting, totalitarianism, unborn, Wesley J. Smith}

Wesley J. Smith: Frightening Abuses of Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 31, 2025

Bioethics, Technology

3}

Experiments on the living unborn. Organ harvesting. Reckless biotech. Radical environmentalism. Read More ›

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Date
January 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Tagged
, activists, billionaires, Charles Darwin, coal, environmentalism, evolution, extinction, gas, humans, Reuters, The Last Supper, Westminster Abbey}

In Unexpected Attack, Activists Deface Charles Darwin’s Tomb

_{Science & Culture
January 14, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Evolution

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Activists with Just Stop Oil seem to be attempting to enlist Darwin’s modern-day followers in their environment cause. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 12, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, activists, atmosphere, climate change, documentary, electronics, engineers, Forrest Mims, ID the Future, ozone, podcast, Scientific American, scientists}

Forrest Mims on Winning the Rolex Award (And How You Can Too!)

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 12, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

3}

By the early 1990s, Mims had built a reputation as one of America’s foremost citizen scientists. Read More ›

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Date
October 7, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, activists, atheism, Ball State University, Canceled Science, career, cosmos, earth, Eric Hedin, higher intelligence, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, laws of nature, life, physicists, professors}

Watch: Dr. Hedin’s Dangerous Question

_{Science & Culture
October 7, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Eric Hedin was enjoying a productive career as a professor at Ball State University when atheist activists tried to cancel him. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
December 4, 2023

Categories
Environment & Climate
Geology
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, activists, Ann Gauger, cancel culture, censorship, climate change, COVID-19, Denyse O'Leary, Evolution News, free speech, funding, global warming, intelligent design, medicine, misconduct, Peter Biles, Wesley J. Smith}

Scientists Behaving Badly: Suppressing Intelligent Design Was Only the Start

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
December 4, 2023

Environment & Climate, Geology, Intelligent Design, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

4}

The best that each of us can do to fight back is to continue educating as many people as possible. Read More ›

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Date
July 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, activists, animal rights, animal welfare, courts, elephants, environmentalism, Florida, glaciers, human thriving, humans, Lake Erie, lakes, lawsuit, nature rights, New York Court of Appeals, Ohio, Orange County, rivers}

Local “Water Rights” Law Invalidated in Florida

_{Science & Culture
July 16, 2022

Bioethics, Life Sciences

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“Nature rights” and “animal rights” activists will keep trying. And there is no denying they are making incremental inroads. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 25, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, activists, assisted suicide, Constitution, courts, Dobbs v. Jackson, Due Process Clause, euthanasia, history, hubris, law, Supreme Court}

How Euthanasia Activists Laid the Groundwork for Overturning Roe

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 25, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Back in the ’90s, the assisted-suicide movement tried to convince the Supreme Court to impose a Roe–style decision for their cause. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, activists, animal rights, animals, Bronx Zoo, children, crime, duties, elephants, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, illness, injury, judges, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, people, rights, slaves, sophistry, women, writ of habeas corpus}

Court Rules Elephant Does Not Have Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 16, 2022

Bioethics, Science Reporting

4}

I have written here several times about the attempt by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP) to “break the species barrier.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 24, 2021

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, activists, assisted suicide, legalization, nurse practitioner, patients, physicians, protective guidelines, psychiatry, psychologist, Skype, Washington State, Zoom}

Let Non-Doctors Participate in Assisted Suicide?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 24, 2021

Medicine

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That process is unfolding in Washington State, where a new bill would let non-doctors be part of the assisted suicide bureaucratic process. Read More ›