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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 19, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, amphibians, animal rights, bees, cognition, consciousness, crabs, crustaceans, cuttlefish, Dan Falk, eliminative materialism, fish, insects, lobsters, memory, nature rights, Nautilus, New York University, octopuses, Phys.org, Quanta, reptiles, sentience, squid, Thomas Nagel}

What Does It Mean to Say “Lobsters Are Conscious”?

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 19, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

6}

Much will be learned from a more careful analysis of the behavior of life forms, which will likely turn up many more instances of unexpected sentience. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 8, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, cats, Dogs, humans, moral value, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, slavery, suffering, Virginia}

Dead Pets: PETA’s Astonishing Kill Rate

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 8, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution

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PETA’s leadership may believe that some animals are better off dead than adopted by households that are non-vegan. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, animal rights, animal welfare, animals, anti-human exceptionalism, breasts, confusion, elections, England, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, journals, monkeys, Oxford University Press, parrots, puberty blocking, rabbits, radicalism, voting}

Animal-Rights Philosopher, Published by Oxford University Press: “Let Animals Vote!”

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 22, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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If you want to see what is going so badly wrong in society, read the professional and intellectual journals. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 19, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, bees, bugs, butterfly, disease, fly, humans, insects, Jonathan Birch, Lars Chittka, larvae, rivers, Wired}

Pushing Insect Welfare

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 19, 2023

Bioethics, Life Sciences

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Of course, we know that insects are not inanimate. A fly senses when you try to swat it. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 7, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abortion, animal rights, animal welfare, Belgium, birth, California, Canada, doctors, Finland, France, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, glaciers, Holocaust, human life, insects, Jews, Journal of Medical Ethics, mastectomies, Netherlands, Ontario, Oregon, organ donation, peas, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, rivers, Sweden, unborn children, United Kingdom}

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 7, 2023

Bioethics, Botany, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 6, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Medicine
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, anti-humanism, COVID-19, equity, global warming, Greta Thunberg, health, human beings, pandemic, Peter Singer, wokeness}

Top Medical Journal Demands “Ecological Equity”

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 6, 2023

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Medicine

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This isn’t some outlier bioethicist or animal-rights activist being given a few pages of ink. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 6, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, bears, cannibalism, consciousness, crime, free will, humans, moral agency, morality, Nonhuman Rights Project, plaintiffs, Psyche, responsibility}

Can Animals Be Held Criminally Responsible?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 6, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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While the idea is handled provocatively in philosophy literature, in practice, animals are envisioned as plaintiffs, not defendants, in animal rights cases. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 13, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animal rights, China, environmentalism, lawmakers, lawsuits, lawyers, liberty, nature, nature rights, transgenderism, United Kingdom}

The Law Society in UK Endorses “Nature Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 13, 2022

Bioethics, Culture, Human Exceptionalism

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In other words, we should redefine our self-understanding as being just another species in the forest. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 6, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, animal rights, bees, consciousness, Eric Cassell, insects, London School of Economics, meat, neuroscience, pain, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, PNAS, Research}

Bees Feel Pain. Therefore…Insect Rights?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 6, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

4}

As we learn more from research about how various life forms respond to experiences, a more complex picture may raise political issues. 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 ›