Tag: Alzheimer’s disease

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

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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 ›

Hands of an elderly man resting on a walking cane

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, advance directive, Alzheimer’s disease, antibiotics, burden, dementia, dementia patients, doula, hospice, killing, nursing, palliative care, patients, suffering, suicide, Thaddeus Mason Pope}

Will We Care For or Kill Dementia Patients?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 21, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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I understand that people are terrified of dementia. Believe me, I get it. My mother died of Alzheimer’s. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 11, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, Arthur Caplan, artificial hydration and nutrition, bioethics, chemotherapy, competency, dehydration, dementia, feeding tubes, food, hygiene, liquids, medical treatment, medicine, Medscape, nurse, nursing, nutrients, patients, spoon-feeding, starvation, surgery, swallowing, Terri Schiavo}

Should Caregivers Be Forced to Starve Dementia Patients?

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 11, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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If you did such a thing to a dog, you would go to jail. When will we say, “Enough. This is too much to ask”? Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
May 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Metascience
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, a priori, Alzheimer’s disease, amino acids, Bret Weinstein, Canadian universities, common descent, Darwinism, Darwinists, DNA, Eugene Koonin, evolution, evolutionary biology, failed predictions, functional information, genetic drift, genomes, Jack Szostak, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, lying, mad cow disease, multiverse, mutations, natural selection, Nature (journal), Parkinson’s disease, population, predictions, protein-coding genes, proteins, pseudoscience, Richard Lenski, Robert Hazen, scientists, variation}

How Darwinism Became a Pseudoscience

_{Kirk Durston
May 15, 2025

Evolution, Life Sciences, Metascience, Scientific Reasoning

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To be clear, I am not suggesting that Darwinists are conspiring to deliberately mislead people, although such misleading is certainly happening. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 7, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, alcohol, Alzheimer’s disease, Aristotle, behaviors, brain, brain activity, electrical discharges, emotions, epilepsy, forced thinking, medical treatment, migraines, mind, muscles, neuorscience, neurons, neuroscience, obsessive-compulsive behavior, odors, physiological reactions, seizure, stroke, Thomas Aquinas, Wilder Penfield}

What Epilepsy Can Teach About the Mind

_{Michael Egnor
May 7, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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I have treated thousands of patients with epilepsy. Seizures can result in a variety of behaviors and emotions. But let me tell you what they don't do. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alan McComas, Alzheimer’s disease, Aristotle, atoms, behaviorism, Benjamin Libet, brain, breathing, concept cells, conception, consciousness, eliminative materialism, functionalism, galaxies, glaciers, heartbeat, hippocampi, hydranencephaly, identity theory, Justine Sergent, machine, molecules, neurons, neuroscience, perception, pineal gland, planets, pseudoscience, René Descartes, Roger Sperry, Scientific American, soul, trees, Werner Heisenberg, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, biotechnology, brain, depression, fraud, funding, measles, mumps, peer review, public health, Research, rubella, Science (journal), serotonin, The Lancet, Vaccines}

Scientists Are Undermining Our Trust in Science

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 30, 2022

Bioethics, Culture

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Falsification of scientific research has been a chronic problem for the sector in recent years. Read More ›

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Date
May 31, 2021

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, biochemists, blood cells, brain, caspases, cells, enzyme, Foresight (book), intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Jonas Salk, Kyoto University, lipids, Marcos Eberlin, microglia, Molecular Cell, phagocytes, phospholipid, Salk Institute}

Cell Cannibalism Shows Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
May 31, 2021

Biology, Intelligent Design

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“Eat me!” cries a cell to other cells. But biochemists know it is for the greater good. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 21, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, advance directive, Alzheimer’s disease, assisted suicide, dementia, despair, disabilities, doctors, family, infanticide, killing, legislation, lethal injection, mental illness, Netherlands, organ harvesting, patients, Reuters}

Dutch Supreme Court Approves Euthanasia for Dementia

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 21, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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The Reuters story leaves out some details. The doctor had drugged the woman before starting to euthanize her, and instructed the family to hold the struggling patient down. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 19, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, Alzheimer’s disease, Charles Thaxton, Dallas, Discovery Institute Dallas, Discovery Institute Press, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, intelligent design, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Linda Buell, Of Pandas and People, Pam Bailey, Phillip E. Johnson, Roger Olsen, The Design of Life, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley}

The Passing of Jon Buell

_{William A. Dembski
March 19, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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That Jon was able to get The Mystery of Life’s Origin to see the light of day was a miracle. Read More ›