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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 21, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal rights, animal welfare, Blake Lemoine, Bronx Zoo, chatbot, courts, Google, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, LaMDA, New York State, Non-Computable You, personhood, PETA, Robert J. Marks II, Wesley J. Smith, Wired, Yuval Noah Harari}

Engineer: Failing to See His AI Program as a Person Is “Bigotry”

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 21, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Earlier this month, just in time for the release of Robert J. Marks’s book Non-Computable You, the story broke. 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

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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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Date
May 27, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, documentary, evolution, film festival, humans, Mother Earth, peas, pigs, The War on Humans, Wesley Smith, YouTube videos}

2022 YouTube Film Festival: The War on Humans

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May 27, 2022

Bioethics, Botany, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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The video investigates activists who want to grant legal rights to animals and plants, and who want to reduce the human population by up to 90 percent. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 14, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, bacteria, Congress, courts, deer, ecosystems, Ecuador, elephant, fish, forests, geological features, habeas corpus, insects, laws, New York State, rivers, Switzerland, viruses, water}

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 14, 2022

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 18, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, chimpanzees, corporations, crime, elephants, Eugene M. Fahey, lawsuit, morality, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, Pachamama, persons, The Atlantic}

Elephants Are Better “Persons” Than People!

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 18, 2021

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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This misanthropic drive among the elites to is not only wrongheaded, it is dangerous. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 8, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, animal rights, animal standing, animals, chimpanzees, dolphins, elephant, elephants, Eugene M. Fahey, fauna, human rights, mammals, New York Court of Appeals, Nonhuman Rights Project, orangutan, pets, Western civilization}

New York High Court to Rule Whether Elephants Are “Persons”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 8, 2021

Bioethics

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Imagine: pet ownership made a formal legal guardianship complete with enforceable fiduciary duties — that is, if we can have pets at all. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, animal rights, animal welfare, animals, bones, heart disease, meat, milk, PETA}

PETA Wrong Again: Milk Is Good for Your Heart

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 27, 2021

Bioethics

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I have no complaint against people who refrain from consuming animal products. Making choices based on one’s moral view is an aspect of human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 22, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, animal rights, Bloomberg, chicken, children, compassion, environmentalists, global warming, media}

Anti-Meat Propaganda Flops as Chicken Consumption Soars

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 22, 2021

Bioethics

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Me? I don’t care what people eat. That’s a personal choice — kind of like taking the COVID vaccine should be. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 8, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, ammonia, animal rights, animal welfare, chickens, eggs, Facebook, Ingrid Newkirk, medical experiments, Nebraska, New York Times, pets}

Costco Chickens and Human Exceptionalism

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 8, 2021

Bioethics, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism

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The impact of too-onerous animal-welfare laws on the diets of people of limited means becomes clear. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 29, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animal rights, animal standing, animal welfare, animals, Argentina, Bronx Zoo, cattle, chimpanzees, Florida, judges, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, personhood, writ of habeas corpus}

Pushing Elephant “Personhood”

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 29, 2020

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Think cattle herds suing ranchers or lab animals suing universities — not to improve care but to liberate from all human use. Read More ›