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Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 9, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
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, __k-review, abortion, animal rights, animal welfare, Belgium, circumcision, Denmark, European Union, euthanasia, faith, Germany, Iceland, Jews, Middle Ages, Muslims, Netherlands, New York Times, Norway, secularism, slaughter, Sweden}

In Europe, Animal Rights Are Steamrolling Religious Freedom

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 9, 2019

Bioethics

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As Western society secularizes, religious liberty is in danger of becoming passé. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 18, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Sociology
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, __k-review, animal rights, Energy, environmentalism, food, Holocaust denial, human rights, humans, ideology, liberty, misanthropy, nature rights, Paris, prosperity, science, Science (journal), water, Western civilization}

Science Article Castigates “Human Supremacy”

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 18, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Sociology

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Environmentalism is growing darkly anti-human. That misanthropy has also seeped into science. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 7, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, animals, courts, environmentalists, equality, humans, laws, lawsuit, lawyers, nature, Racism, radicalism, social justice, speciesism}

“Social Justice” Inflates to Include Animals

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 7, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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An article published in Biological Conservation illustrates environmentalism’s metastasizing misanthropy. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 5, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, Africans, animal rights, Bronx Zoo, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, clergy, Darwinism, frivolous lawsuits, Happy (elephant), human rights, Human Zoos, Monkey House, New York Post, Nonhuman Rights Project, Ota Benga, scientific racism, Tree of Life, Wesley Smith, writ of habeas corpus}

On Human and Animal Rights, the Twisted Course of Evolutionary “Philosophy”

_{David Klinghoffer
October 5, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Wesley Smith commented earlier on the struggle, via litigation by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP), to grant human-like “rights” to an elephant in the Bronx Zoo. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 5, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, animals, Argentina, Bronx Zoo, chimpanzees, Congress, Constitution, courts, elephant, frivolous lawsuits, habeas corpus, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, judge, mirror, New York Court of Appeals, New York Post, Nonhuman Rights Project, orangutan, personhood}

Here We Go Again: Suing for “Elephant Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 5, 2018

Bioethics

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Our care and treatment of animals arise from human duties, not conjuring rights for animals out of ideological zeal. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 6, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
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, __k-review, animal rights, animals, bioengineering, blood vessels, computers, euthanasia, George W. Bush, hearts, Human, kidneys, lungs, organ transplant, pigs, Research, rodents, Science News, scientists, stem cells, United States}

Lab-Grown Lungs Transplanted into Pigs

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 6, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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The human organ shortage is one of the great bioethical dilemmas of our time. Expanding the organ supply is a matter of life and death. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 20, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, BBC News, computer program, conservatives, enzyme, function, gene, King’s College London, Maryland, monkeys, PETA, rats, spinal cord, stroke, viruses}

We Need the Grim Good of Animal Research

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 20, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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Scientists researching gene therapy as a potential future therapy have succeeded in restoring feeling to paralyzed rats. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 24, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, animal standing, Constitution, copyright, courts, duties, PETA, Supreme Court, Titanic}

Court Takes Half-Step Toward Animals Suing

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 24, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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I know Judge Bea, who wrote this decision — and he’s no left-wing radical. So, I think the court is sending a warning. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 10, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, Abraham Lincoln, Amazon River, animal rights, cattle, Civil War, elephants, fauna, flora, humankind, Jonah Goldberg, National Review, nature rights, rivers, Robert E. Lee, Virginia, writ of habeas corpus}

Why the Animal/Nature Rights vs. Human Duties Distinction Matters

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 10, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Says Jonah Goldberg, “One cheer (and maybe two) for non-human personhood.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 4, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, animal welfare, Breitbart, coercion, misanthropy, PETA, pigs, terrorism, video, youtube}

It’s Unfair to Tie Animal Rights to the YouTube Shooting

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 4, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting

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The YouTube shooter — I don’t believe in naming these people — did not fit the expected profile. Read More ›