Tag: bioethicists

Hands of an elderly man resting on a walking cane

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 30, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, antipsychotics, assisted suicide, bioethicists, Bioethics (journal), confusion, decision‐making, dehydration, distress, doctors, encouragement, euthanasia, fluids, HIV, palliating doctor, patients, physicians, professional journals, refractory delirium, self-starvation, suffering, suicide, suicide assistance, syringes, terminal sedation, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Journal Advocates “Terminal Sedation” for People Committing Suicide by Self-Starving

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 30, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Articles in professional journals are a means of constructing future public policy and people need to be warned. Read More ›

Pouring milk from bottle into a glass on light blue background, high key shot

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 10, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, alt-right, Art Caplan, Ben Carson, Benito Mussolini, bigotry, bioethicists, bioethics, dog whistle, eugenics, Europe, far right, For What It’s Worth, health, John Fetterman, lyrics, milk, neo-Nazis, Oval Office, paranoia, Racism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., school menus, Sigmund Freud, soy milk, U.S. Senate, United States, white nationalists, whole milk, whole white milk}

Bioethicist Jumps Shark, Goes After Whole Milk

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 10, 2026

Bioethics, Ethics

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To paraphrase Freud: Sometimes whole milk is just whole milk. It’s about improving health, not promoting bigotry. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 30, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, activists, authoritarianism, bioethicists, bioethics, British Columbia, California, Canada, Catholic moral teaching, Catholic teaching, courts, doctors, Dominion Health, effective referral, euthanasia, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, hospitals, human life, law, medical institutions, medicine, plaintiffs, uterus, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority}

When Doctors’ Faith Loses to Bureaucratic Power

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 30, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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In Canada, the family of a euthanized woman, forced to leave a Catholic hospital to be killed, is seeking to compel Catholic hospitals to permit euthanasia. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Tagged
, biodiversity, bioethicists, bioethics, climate change, flooding, health, health care, hospitals, hubris, human exceptionalism, humans, medical ethics, war, wildfires}

Only Bioethicists Can Save the Planet!

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 13, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Evolution

3}

Apparently, anyone with any claim to victimization or marginalization can be a bioethicist now. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethicists, brain, brain death, cardiac arrest, circulation, comatose, consciousness, equality, health care, heart, human life, intention, medicine, memory, New York Times, organ donors, organ-harvesting, organs, patients, trust}

Killing for Organs — Who Could Possibly Object?

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 5, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine

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Three doctors promote the idea of “redefining death” to allow patients to be killed for their organs. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, advocacy, assisted suicide, bioethicists, bioethics, climate change, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), gender ideology, hospitals, medical school, medicine, patients, Paul Ramsey, policy, United Nations, utilitarianism}

Bioethics Becomes Just Another Social-Justice Political Movement

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 13, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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A new study illustrates how bioethics is not (and, indeed, never has been) an area of objective professional expertise. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 3, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animals, bioethicists, brains, doctors, experts, human life, humans, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, organoids, philosophers, rats, Research, speciesism}

We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals”

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 3, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Bioethics is a utilitarianish social-political movement whose primary advocates are usually philosophers, lawyers, and/or doctors. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 8, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, addiction, bioethicists, Brave New World, despair, drugs, faith, family, meaning, mental health, neuroscience, patriotism, purpose, Reductionism, suicide}

Bioethicists Push Psychedelics for an “Interesting” Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 8, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

The dangers of taking such drugs aside, this essay reflects the reductionism of our time. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 10, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethicists, democracy, employment, global warming, homelessness, Iran, Israel, professors, Racism, Ukraine, virtue-signaling, Vladimir Putin, war}

Blessed Are the Peacemakers, for They Shall Be Called Bioethicists

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 10, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Can you see it? Putin calling the Hastings Center and asking for a bioethics consultation before invading Ukraine. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 26, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, anti-racism, assisted suicide, bioethicists, disability, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), embryonic stem cells, equity, experts, Gaza, gender, health, human cloning, lawyers, medical conscience, philosophers, pro-life, race, Roman Catholic, Second Amendment, sexuality, technocracy, woke ideology}

Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 26, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

It seems to me that the best approach to the policy opinions of mainstream bioethicists is to consider the source, shrug, and carry on. Read More ›