Tag: Brave New World

Futuristic holographic baby in doctor's hand: exploring virtual reality and medical technology

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 23, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, babies, Big Fertility, bioethics, Brave New World, cells, children, China, CRISPR, designer babies, eggs, embryos, gestational carriers, government, Katy Faust, manufacture, men, parents, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, regulation, reproduction, skin cells, somatic cell nuclear transfer, sperm, Them Before Us, women}

Human Reproduction Is Becoming Human Manufacture

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 23, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Making eggs out of skin cells is just the latest example of an accelerating reproductive anarchy that is changing our very culture. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 8, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, addiction, bioethicists, Brave New World, community, despair, drugs, faith, family, LSD, meaning, mental health, neuroscience, patriotism, psychedelics, 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
Peter Biles

Date
April 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
Technology
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), books, Brave New World, censorship, dystopia, libraries, music, noise, novels, paper, podcasts, radios, Singularity, sound, transhumanism}

Here’s Another Transhumanist Dream Come True — Revisiting Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

_{Peter Biles
April 27, 2023

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom, Technology

5}

Despite all the transhumanist predictions of the Singularity, it’s hard to dismiss the fact that to a certain degree we’ve already merged with our machines. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 5, 2023

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Arctic Ocean, Asian elephant, bison, Brave New World, carbon dioxide, CRISPR-Cas9, de-extinction, DNA, elephants, epigenetics, extinction, global warming, Great Lakes, greenhouse gas, Ice Age, marsupials, methane, North America, passenger pigeon, Pleistocene, Pleistocene Park, Sergey Zimov, settled science, Siberia, South Africa, The Atlantic, wooly mammoth}

Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

_{Rob Sheldon
April 5, 2023

Ecology, Evolution, Paleontology

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The idea is to recreate some of the DNA from the sequencing of frozen mammoths, and inject it into an Asian elephant egg. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
November 28, 2022

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Batsell Barrett Baxter, Brave New World, business, C.S. Lewis, chemotherapy, concentration camp, Corrie ten Boom, danger, freedom, grief, hatred, intelligent design, Jews, literature, love, Melissa Wehmann Sewell, music, pain, poetry, problem of pain, puppets, suffering, Utopia}

Intelligent Design and the Value of Suffering

_{Granville Sewell
November 28, 2022

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Technology

6}

After she realized she had lost her battle with cancer, my wife Melissa wrote a letter to our children. 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

3}

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
Michael Egnor

Date
August 19, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abortion, Associated Press, autonomy, Brave New World, Canada, depression, discrimination, euthanasia, hearing loss, homicide, human dignity, medicine, physician-assisted suicide, suffering}

“Thank You for Waiting. The Doctor Will Kill You Now…”

_{Michael Egnor
August 19, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine, Science

3}

Canada has some of the most permissive euthanasia laws in the world and allows people with disabilities to be killed on request. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 27, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, algorithms, Big Tech, boredom, Brave New World, computer games, Davos, drugs, eugenics, gene editing, machines, nihilism, technocrats, transhumanism, universities, vehicles, Yuval Harari}

Transhumanism Is Pure Eugenics

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 27, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

Israeli philosophy professor Yuval Harari is one of the movement’s chief proselytizers. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 11, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew Klavan, atheism, Brave New World, C.S. Lewis, China, churches, COVID-19, Dennis Prager, dystopia, expertise, experts, God Hypothesis, isolation, lockdown, Marxism, materialism, Return of the God Hypothesis, riots, secularism, Soviet Union, synagogues, The Matrix, totalitarianism, tyranny, United States, unvaccinated}

Stephen Meyer: Totalitarian Dystopias and the God Hypothesis

_{David Klinghoffer
April 11, 2022

Bioethics, Intelligent Design

3}

The insight is timely, given the two-year anniversary of lockdowns that we’ve recently observed. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 21, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, atomic energy, Big Biotech, Brave New World, CRISPR, dystopia, embryos, genetic engineering, Israel, mouse embryos, New York Times, scientists, Weizmann Institute of Science, Zoltan Istvan}

Scientists Succeed in Creating Mouse Artificial Wombs

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 21, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

This technology is still a long time from the potential for human application, but it presents issues we need to address now. Read More ›