Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date January 31, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, authoritarianism, doctors, families, futile care theory, law, medical futility, patients, Virginia Medical Coercion Comes to Virginia? Wesley J. Smith January 31, 2018 Bioethics, Medicine 3 Futile care theory (as I call it) or medical futility allows doctors to unilaterally refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment based on the physician’s values. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date June 30, 2017 CategoriesArtsBioethicsEthicsHuman ExceptionalismPhilosophy Tagged , __k-review, Aeon, authoritarianism, carbon, culture, materialism, nihilism Only Humans Understand “Significance” Wesley J. Smith June 30, 2017 Arts, Bioethics, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Philosophy 4 Materialists believe that, in the end, we are only so many carbon molecules, signifying nothing. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date September 3, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __tedited, “consensus science”, authoritarianism, freedom of conscience, legislation, medical conscience Forced Reeducation for MDs Who Don’t Want to Kill Wesley J. Smith September 3, 2016 Bioethics, Medicine 2 Bioethicists would require doctors to perform community service for their thought crime and to attend reeducation classes. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date June 29, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsScience Reporting Tagged , __tedited, authoritarianism, bioethics, Neil deGrasse Tyson The Best Thing About Neil Tyson’s #Rationalia? David Klinghoffer June 29, 2016 Bioethics, Science Reporting 2 That would have to be the rational response to it, which has been almost pure derision. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date June 29, 2016 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , __tedited, authoritarianism, democracy, evidence, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Politics, scientism, totalitarian science #Rationalia? Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Authoritarian Daydream David Klinghoffer June 29, 2016 Bioethics 3 Dr. Tyson of Cosmos fame has come in for mockery after proposing a "virtual country" with a "one-line Constitution." Read More ›
