Tag: Department of Health and Human Services

Modern open-plan science laboratory with researchers in white coats working at workstations, bright natural light, 4k, Generative AI.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 2, 2026

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, amateurs, anti-science, authoritarianism, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, climate change, COVID, debate, Department of Health and Human Services, engineers, freedom of inquiry, government, Gregor Mendel, health-care workers, humankind, Jane Goodall, legislation, misinformation, Nature (journal), patients, registration, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scientific inquiry, scientists, South Africa, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, transgenderism, vaccine skeptics}

Register Scientists with the Government? Top Journal Says Yes!

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 2, 2026

Scientific Freedom, Scientific Reasoning

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It would be a means of controlling who is allowed to “do” science and the ability to determine what can be communicated to the public. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
September 1, 2026

Categories
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, androgens, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Ari Berkowitz, biological sex, biologists, biology, body hair, brain size, breast size, Caster Semenya, chromosomes, clitoris, Colin Wright, Department of Health and Human Services, eggs, embryo, evolutionary biologists, female, gender, genitals, hormones, Howard Glicksman, intersex, labia, Leonard Sax, male, muscular strength, ovaries, primary sex traits, reproduction, reproductive tissues, secondary sex traits, sex cells, sex realism, sperm, Steve Laufmann, testes, Testis Determining Factor, The Binary Delusion, The Conversation, Too Fast to Be a Woman?, University of Oklahoma, urethra, voice pitch, waist-to-hip ratio, Y chromosome, Your Designed Body}

The Non-Binary Delusion: A Biologist’s Attempt to Escape Reality

_{Terrell Clemmons
September 1, 2026

Biology, Medicine

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Most people understand that secondary sex characteristics can vary, but Ari Berkowitz leaps beyond this uncontroversial observation. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bioethics, choking, death, Department of Health and Human Services, doctors, kidney, New York Times, organ-harvesting, overdose, patients}

Organ-Procurement Goofs Threaten Trust

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 4, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The “dead donor rule” is the cement that binds the public’s trust in organ transplant medicine. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, competition, death, Department of Health and Human Services, families, government, hospice, Humanize, palliative care, patients}

As Assisted Suicide Looms, How to Save Hospice

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Often now people approach me after a speech or call in on talk radio to tell me that they do not trust hospice to properly care for their loved ones. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 6, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, Alzheimer’s disease, assisted suicide, barbiturates, Bill Clinton, Congress, Department of Health and Human Services, euthanasia, hospice, hospitals, hydration, medical school, medicine, nutrition, Oregon, palliative care, self-starvation, Supreme Court, VSED}

A Trojan Horse for Euthanasia? No

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 6, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

9}

When my mother was dying of Alzheimer’s disease and the sharp bodily decline that hits those in their late 90s, my wife and I brought her home for care. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 11, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, assisted suicide, death, Department of Health and Human Services, euthanasia, Hemlock Society, life, medical aid in dying, medicine, nurses, patients, pharmacists, physicians, Vermont}

Assisted-Suicide Pushers Want Forced MD Participation

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 11, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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Sometimes they show their true hands. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 14, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, controversy, death, Department of Health and Human Services, embryology, fertilization, health, life, medicine, public health, science}

Controversial! HHS to Define Life in Line with Embryology Textbooks

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 14, 2017

Bioethics, Biology, Life Sciences, Medicine

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The Department of Health and Human Services has published a draft strategic plan for 2018-2022. Read More ›