Tag: Belgium

Football scene at night match with close up of a soccer shoe hitting the ball with power

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 20, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American flag, Ari Hoffman, Australia, Belgium, biologists, bones, cadaver, Christian Pulisic, connective tissue, crowds, Diego Maradona, Egypt, FIFA, goalkeeper, human foot, inconvenience, intelligent design, ligaments, movement, multifunctionality, pedestrian area, Seattle, shock, soccer, Sports, tendons, terrorism, Townhall, trains, unguided evolution, United States, World Cup}

Real Star of the World Cup: The Human Foot

_{David Klinghoffer
June 20, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

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In few sports, perhaps, does the foot stand out more. Emily Reeves offers an appreciation. Read More ›

Operation room surgery in hospital, blurred figures. Professional treatment and professional conduct concept.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 14, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Belgium, bioethics, Canada, Canadian media, China, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese doctors, dead donor rule, dying, Epoch Times, Falun Gong, instrumentalization, Jan Jekielek, Killed to Order, lethal injection, medicine, Netherlands, Noelia Castillo Ramos, organ harvesting, political prisoners, suicide, surgery, utilitarianism, Uygur Muslims, Western medicine}

In Drift Toward Instrumentalizing Humans, Western Medicine Follows China

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 14, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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At least in some sense, once the girl was deemed killable, her body parts became the primary factor in her care. Read More ›

White medical pills or tablets with bottle on black background. Macro side view with copy space

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 12, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abdominal pain, assisted suicide, autopsy, Belgium, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, Brittany Maynard, Canada, compounding pharmacies, disability, Eileen Mihich, Elizabeth Bruenig, Estonia, euthanasia, Germany, Jack Kevorkian, Jess Kaan, Luxembourg, Marjorie Wantz, mental illness, Netherlands, Oregon, pharmacists, pharmacy, poison, psychiatric disorders, rape, slippery slope, suffering, suicide, suicide prevention, The Atlantic, Veronica Torina, Washington State}

How a Mentally Ill Woman Wrote Herself a Lethal Prescription

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 12, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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A troubling look at how systemic gaps enabled a vulnerable woman to obtain lethal drugs unchecked. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 7, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Donation after Circulatory Death, euthanasia, lethal injection, lethal overdose, mental illness, Neonatal Resuscitation Program, Netherlands, Ontario, organ harvesting, organs, statistics, suicidal people, suicide, terminal illness, Thaddeus Mason Pope}

Bringing a Moral Horror to America: The Assisted-Suicide Movement Wants It

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 7, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Conjoining organ harvesting with assisted suicide or euthanasia gives society a “stake” in sick people being made dead. Read More ›

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Date
February 25, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, American Council for Science and Health, artificial intelligence, Belgium, bias, chatbot, climate change, Gary Smith, hallucination, medicine, neuroscience, privacy, psychiatry, safety, Stanford University, suicide}

Replace Psychiatrists with AI?

_{Science & Culture
February 25, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

"A Belgian man, after weeks of dialogues with his chatbot 'confidante,' committed suicide after it encouraged him to sacrifice himself for climate change." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 1, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, death, doctors, euthanasia, hospitals, kidneys, medicine, Netherlands, Newsweek, organ donation, organ harvesting, organs, suicide}

Medical Journal Has a Ghoulish Proposal: Conjoining Euthanasia with Organ Harvesting

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 1, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

This much is clear: We are far down the road of objectifying the bodies of suicidal people to permit unethical acts. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 15, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Belgium, Canada, Cornell University, human life, kidneys, Netherlands, organ transplant, organs, Peter Singer, pigs, surgery}

Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 15, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 23, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, abandonment, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, Canadians, doctors, euthanasia, Hippocratic Oath, lethal injection, mental illness, Netherlands, New York Times, patients, policymakers, prescription, psychiatry, suicide, United States}

NYT Pushes Suicide for the Mentally Ill

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 23, 2023

Bioethics, Science Reporting

4}

Clancy Martin’s first paragraph makes clear why his thesis should be rejected out of hand. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 3, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Belgium, civilization, culture, emotions, feelings, females, gender, gender dysphoria, Germany, males, society, thought, transgenderism}

In Belgium, Subjectivity Triumphs Over Biology

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 3, 2023

Bioethics, Biology, Life Sciences

2}

The attitude will metastasize across society and culture, eventually corroding our most fundamental institutions and societal structures. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 23, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, experts, lawmakers, Netherlands, parental consent, parents, pediatricians, United States}

Canadian Lawmakers Support Euthanasia for Minors without Parental Consent

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 23, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Canada, being our closest cultural cousin, exerts a substantial influence on our own country’s social policies. Read More ›