Tag: addiction

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 8, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, addiction, bioethicists, Brave New World, community, despair, drugs, faith, family, LSD, meaning, mental health, neuroscience, patriotism, psychedelics, purpose, Reductionism, suicide}

Bioethicists Push Psychedelics for an “Interesting” Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 8, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

The dangers of taking such drugs aside, this essay reflects the reductionism of our time. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
April 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, addiction, culture, David Foster Wallace, Facebook, film, humanity, Instagram, Internet, journalists, literature, loneliness, modern life, money, television, TikTok, United States}

Life with Screens: A Novelist’s Prophetic Warning

_{Peter Biles
April 9, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

David Foster Wallace foresaw the rise of the Internet and its pantheon of seductions. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, addiction, alleles, anomalies, Barbara McClintock, BioEssays, circadian rhythms, cognition, DNA, enhancers, epigenetic code, epigenetic inheritance, epigenetics, evolution, genes, genomes, human genome, intelligence, intelligent design, introns, John Mattick, junk DNA, lncRNAs, methylation, molecular biology, mRNAs, neutral evolution, paradigm shift, personality, retroviruses, Ribosome, Scientific American, Short Tandem Repeats, Thomas Kuhn, transposable elements, transposons}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten “Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm

_{Casey Luskin
November 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

John Mattick uses the language of historian of science Thomas Kuhn to predict that we are witnessing a “paradigm shift” away from the concept of junk DNA. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 1, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Science
Technology
Tagged
, addiction, Andrew McDiarmid, animals, Bible, Big Tech, Braveheart, characters, consciousness, Dennis Prager, devices, Dogs, Eric Metaxas, Google, humans, Internet, Michael Medved, nature, New York Post, pets, Sabbath, storytelling}

By Design: Storytelling Reveals Human Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer
February 1, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Science, Technology

3}

That humans enjoy being made to wait seems to have been deliberately built into us. It’s unique in nature, an intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
May 18, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abscess, addiction, Bible, compassion, COVID-19, dehumanization, doctors, emergency room, Fort Worth, futile care, Greeks, human life, Human Zoos, medicine, MRI, Nuremberg trials, nurses, opioids, police, Romans, Social Darwinism, Texas, Tufts University, Vaccines, Virginia, Wesley Smith}

When Medical Science Becomes Heartless: The Case of Joshua Smith

_{John G. West
May 18, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

14}

This might be a good time to take stock of those you rely on for your medical care. How much do you know about your doctors? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 9, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, addiction, assisted suicide, cancer, despair, fentanyl, New York Times, prosperity, suicide}

Fewer “Deaths of Despair” Increase U.S. Life Expectancy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 9, 2020

Bioethics

2}

Unstated, but perhaps a contributing factor, was the increasing prosperity we have enjoyed in country in recent years. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 20, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, addiction, Animal Planet, Bill Nye, Center for Science and Culture, despair, Discovery Channel, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, History Channel, intelligent design, James Tour, Jay Richards, Jeffrey Schwartz, materialism, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, National Geographic Wild, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Science Uprising, scientific racism, Stephen Meyer, suicide}

Science Uprising — An Edgy New Video Series, Coming June 3

_{David Klinghoffer
May 20, 2019

Intelligent Design

4}

The old have failed the young. Hate-driven shootings in schools and houses of worship, rising suicide and addiction rates — these are the most dramatic indications. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
March 19, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, addiction, determinism, health, intelligent design, intention, learning, Mount Rainier, music, musicians, Puget Sound, randomness, running, specified complexity, William A. Dembski}

Specified Complexity Is All Around Us

_{Sarah Chaffee
March 19, 2019

Intelligent Design, Linguistics

4}

A key idea in the theory of ID is specification, or matching a pattern. Specified, complex information is a hallmark of intelligent activity. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 22, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, addiction, doctors, health, healthy lifestyles, New York Times, nurse, opioid epidemic, patients, Politics}

Physicians Should Prescribe Pills, not Politics

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 22, 2018

Medicine

4}

The last thing sick people need while being admitted to a hospital is a nurse or clerk trying to get out the vote. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 29, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, addiction, Alzheimer’s, Belgium, despair, euthanasia, fear, killing, loneliness, organ donation, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychiatric disorders, schizophrenia, suffering, suicide}

Euthanasia’s Moral Abyss — Belgian Edition

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 29, 2018

Bioethics

3}

The carnage so bloodlessly described in the Belgian report demonstrates vividly the consequences to a society when it generally accepts killing as a proper answer to human suffering. Read More ›