Tag: biotech

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 10, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Computational Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, bacteria, biotech, chatbots, ChatGPT, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, complacency, drug-resistant bacteria, human viruses, Peter Koo, poisons, Science (journal), Stanford University, technology, virus, Wall Street Journal, World Health Organization}

Hey, Great News! Scientists Used AI to Create Viruses

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 10, 2026

Bioethics, Computational Sciences, Medicine

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What about attempts to test their virulence in humans? The approach in the Stanford lab sure sounds like a new form of gain-of-function research to me. Read More ›

Dimly lit laboratory with chemicals and equipment in a vintage, cluttered room

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 31, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, activists, biotech, biotechnology, censorship, culture of death, dignity, embryos, environmentalism, fetal farming, gender dysphoria, gender ideology, genetic engineering, hospitals, human exceptionalism, human life, moral responsibility, nature rights, organ harvesting, totalitarianism, unborn, Wesley J. Smith}

Wesley J. Smith: Frightening Abuses of Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 31, 2025

Bioethics, Technology

3}

Experiments on the living unborn. Organ harvesting. Reckless biotech. Radical environmentalism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 9, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Paleontology
Science Reporting
Technology
Tagged
, base pairs, biotech, clicks, Colossal Biosciences, de-extinction, dire wolves, elephant, fur, gene editing, gray wolves, headlines, media, New Scientist, woolly mammoth}

Dire Wolves Are Still Extinct

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 9, 2025

Archaeology, Paleontology, Science Reporting, Technology

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Let’s call it puffery. The company was careful to acknowledge that the dire wolf is not actually back but that the pups are “functional equivalents.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 31, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, biotech, censorship, embryos, environmentalism, evidence-based medicine, gender ideology, hospitals, human dignity, human life, ID the Future, medicine, morality, organ harvesting, regulations, totalitarianism, unborn, Wesley J. Smith}

Halloween Edition: A Look at Frightening Science with Wesley J. Smith

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 31, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Medicine, Scientific Freedom

2}

Biotechnology is advancing faster than our ethical considerations, including synthetic human embryos, genetic engineering, and fetal farming. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, biotech, clones, Daily Mail, Dolly the sheep, egg cell, embryos, fetuses, humans, immortality, medicine, nucleus, somatic cell nuclear transfer, transhumanists}

Harvesting Clones to Live Forever Would Be Monstrous

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 8, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

3}

Of course, Zhavoronkov’s lab is in China — the land where medical and other ethics might go to die. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 3, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, arthritis, biotech, California, diabetes, embryonic stem cells, Federal Government, George W. Bush, heart disease, Hollywood, homeless, human cloning, Los Angeles, NIH, San Francisco, Victor Davis Hanson}

Will California Voters Be Stem-Cell Suckered Again?

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 3, 2019

Medicine

3}

California is in worse shape now than it was in 2004. Thousands of people are living in tents on the streets of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 30, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, __cedited, Aldous Huxley, babies, biotech, Brave New World, China, dehumanization, Dubai, embryos, eugenics, FDA, gametes, genetic engineering, germline, gestational carriers, He Jiankui, IVF, Politicians, procreation, regulation, Stanford University, William Hurlbut}

Don’t Let Profiteers Control Human Genetic Engineering

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 30, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine, Technology

4}

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World as a dire warning. But we aren’t paying heed. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 14, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __cedited, ABC News, atheism, BBC News, biotech, brain, Christianity, computers, Duke University, Jesus Christ, Oxford University, Princeton University, Ray Kurzweil, salvation, Singularity, transhumanism, Yale University, Zoltan Istvan}

Transhumanism: A Wail of Despair in the Night

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 14, 2018

Bioethics, Philosophy

6}

Transhumanists seek to “seize control of human evolution” by harnessing the naked power of biotech, cyber tech, and computer tech. Read More ›

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Date
February 20, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, __image, biotech, chemical evolution, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Europe, evolution, Finland, genomics, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan Witt, Matti Leisola, molecular biology, mutations, natural selection, Ola Hössjer, Research, science, Stockholm University}

Stockholm University’s Ola Hössjer Reviews Heretic

_{Science & Culture
February 20, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“Should materialism be enforced, or are we, as scientists, willing to allow an intelligent designer through the door?” Read More ›