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Purchasers of Black-Market Human Organs Often Complicit in Murder

The black market in human organs does not receive nearly enough attention. China is probably the worst offender. Read More ›
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According to New Physics Model, Consciousness Underlies the Universe

We live in a universe closer to the vision of Plato (c. 427 – 348 BC) than of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895). Read More ›
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Near-Death Experiences: Explaining vs. Explaining Away

The first rule of a scientific approach should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis. Read More ›
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Here It Comes: First Transgenderism, Next Transableism

Why is it not also appropriate to cut off unwanted arms or snip spinal cords if that brings emotional relief? Read More ›
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Netherlands Already Allows Infanticide, So Why Not Canada?

In a more righteous world, allowing infanticide would make the Netherlands a pariah nation, but we have become morally stunted in the West. Read More ›
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Medical Association Goes “Neutral” on Killing Patients

Doctors should lead on crucial moral and issues such as this, not be merely flotsam and jetsam. Read More ›
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Pre-Order Immortality Now! (It’s Only 8 Years Away, Apparently)

Would living forever in a utopian technological society really be as great as the transhumanists insist?  Read More ›
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Harvesting Clones to Live Forever Would Be Monstrous

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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Suicide Tourism Comes to Oregon

Some jurisdictions are getting there faster and some slower. But that tide only flows in one direction. Read More ›
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Animals Tune Behavior by  Lunar Cycle; but How?

Researchers in Austria think they have found a clue: a cryptochrome protein that appears to respond to the lunar cycle. Read More ›

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