Tag: biotechnology

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, labs, 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

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

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, biotechnology, carbon molecules, China, Communists, death, despair, Falun Gong, hope, immortality, life-extension, obliteration, organ black market, organs, Orthodox Christians, political prisoners, Russia, technology, transhumanism, transhumanists, tyranny, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping}

Xi and Putin: Tyranny and Transhumanism

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 4, 2025

Bioethics, Technology

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Transhumanism is mostly a materialistic wail of despair in the night, a desperate quest for hope for those who are terrified that death leads to obliteration. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 8, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, alien hand syndrome, antiseizure medications, biotechnology, brain, Broca’s area, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, corpus callosum, Gonzalo Munevar, Hannah Thomasy, hemispheres, language, Lawrence Technical University, Michael Egnor, neuroscientists, Nobel Prize, Roger Sperry, sci-fi, Severance (sci-fi series), split-brain patients, split-brain syndrome, The Immortal Mind, The Scientist}

One Brain, Two Consciousnesses?

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 8, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The idea that split-brain surgery can create two separate minds is immortal — in science fiction. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 3, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Abigail Shrier, Aristotle, biotechnology, Bismarck, books, ChatGPT4, Claudine Gay, college campuses, DALL-E, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Gemini, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, Google, hallucinations, Harvard University, intelligent design, large language models, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, medicine, Microsoft, North Dakota, Stanford University, theology, truth, verification, Wall Street Journal, websites, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski}

Truth and Trust in Large Language Models

_{William A. Dembski
April 3, 2024

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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How much truth is ChatGPT or Gemini giving us? How much can we trust their answers to queries? As we'll see, LLMs can lay no claim to truth. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Anthony Fauci, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cancel culture, climate change, Cold War, dairy cows, Francis Collins, gender-affirming care, Great Barrington Declaration, Hiroshima, Ireland, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorff, McCarthyism, movies, Nagasaki, National Institutes of Health, Oppenheimer, Soviet Union, Sunetra Gupta, United States, wrongthink}

For Science and Free Speech, Lessons from Oppenheimer

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 16, 2023

Bioethics, Physical Sciences, Scientific Freedom

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Like all great art, the movie evokes reactions in the viewer beyond what the filmmaker might have intended. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 25, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ethics
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, biotechnology, blastocyst, cells, CRISPR, embryology, embryonic stem cells, embryos, gametes, genetic engineering, human embryos, human experimentation, implantation, morality, petri dish, pluripotent stem cells, public policy, Science News, synthetic embryos, UCLA}

Scientists Are Close to Creating Human Embryos from Stem Cells

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 25, 2023

Bioethics, Biology, Ethics, Life Sciences, Medicine

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Once again, biotechnology is racing ahead of our capacity to intellectually digest what is happening. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, BioEdge, biotechnology, Brave New World, dystopia, egg cells, embryos, experimentation, illness, lifestyle, medical professionals, medicine, public opinion, selective reduction, stem cells, The Guardian, United Kingdom}

“Anything Goes” Reproduction Gathers Steam

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 30, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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Medicine isn’t just about curing illness anymore. It is also a resource facilitating lifestyle enablement and the fulfillment of subjective personal desires. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, biotechnology, brain, depression, fraud, funding, measles, mumps, peer review, public health, Research, rubella, Science (journal), serotonin, The Lancet, Vaccines}

Scientists Are Undermining Our Trust in Science

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 30, 2022

Bioethics, Culture

3}

Falsification of scientific research has been a chronic problem for the sector in recent years. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 12, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, archaea, ATP, bacteria, biotechnology, conservation, COVID-19, enzyme, eukaryotes, evolution, Evolution News, heat, hot springs, hydrothermal vents, intelligent design, kinase, Nature (journal), ribose, RNA, therapeutics, tRNA, University of Tokyo, Vaccines, Yellowstone}

Transfer RNAs Wear Special Gear for Hot Water

_{David Coppedge
May 12, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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As usual, evolution-talk is inversely proportional to the amount of detail presented about cellular workings. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Origin of Life
Technology
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Aristotle, biotechnology, book reviews, defining terms, evolution, film, film review, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, intellectual history, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, movies, panspermia, satire, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, Svante Arrhenius, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Frankenstein and His Offspring

_{Neil Thomas
April 13, 2022

Biology, Origin of Life, Technology

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"Abiogenesis" seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life. Read More ›