Tag: government

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
, __trending, 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

5}

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
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 26, 2025

Categories
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Big Bang, Carrollgate, efficacy, Eric Weinstein, ethics, geometric unity, government, groupthink, Johns Hopkins University, physicists, physics, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, predictions, productivity, quantum gravity, Sabine Hossenfelder, Sean Carroll, theoretical physicists, trust}

Exposed: The Flakiness and Groupthink that Plague Physics

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 26, 2025

Physics, Scientific Reasoning

7}

This episode is worth keeping in mind when we hear pundits complain that the public doesn’t trust science or that government doesn’t support it enough. Read More ›

Focused man wearing futuristic brain computer interface intense concentration

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 19, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Benyamin Meschede-Krasa, brain implant, brain-computer interfaces, BrainGate2, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, dissidents, English, Erin Kunz, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Francis Willett, government, Ian Fleming, inner speech, Jacques Vidal, Manhasset, monologue, neuroscience, new york, Rudy Molinek, Sarah Wandelt, Smithsonian Magazine, speech, Stanford University, stroke, technology, UCLA}

A Device to Read Minds? Not What Researchers Intended, But…

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 19, 2025

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

"There’s a voice inside most people’s minds that comes alive when they listen, read, or prepare to speak." Read More ›

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Date
August 6, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, academic publishing, artificial inteligence, authorships, citations, government, John Sexton, misconduct, Moore’s law, Northwestern University, PNAS, publications, science, science fraud, science publishers, scientific literature, scientific process, stakeholders, standards, technology, trust}

Fraudulent Science Networks Outpace Legitimate Science

_{Science and Culture
August 6, 2025

Ethics, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

"Before the public loses confidence in the scientific process"? Hasn't that train already left the station? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, competition, Dame Cecily Saunders, death, Department of Health and Human Services, Dying Well, families, government, health system, hospice, Humanize, living, palliative care, Palliative Medicine Reports, patients, quality, total pain}

As Assisted Suicide Looms, How to Save Hospice

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

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
May 3, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Department of Justice, Edward Martin Jr., Eric Rubin, First Amendment, free speech, gender-affirming care, government, medicine, New York Times, public health, public policy, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, Washington DC}

The Wrong Tool to Fix Woke Science Journals

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 3, 2025

Medicine, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

2}

The government has no business pressuring medical journals about their content — no matter how biased. Read More ›

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Date
April 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Planetology
Tagged
, American Council for Science and Health, Anil Potti, Cameron English, chemistry, conservatives, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, distrust, Duke University, EPA, fraud, funding, government, Harvard University, Inspector Clouseau, Journal of the American Medical Association, Mount Sinai Hospital, National Institute on Aging, Parkinson’s disease, pesticides, Proxima Centauri, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Samuel Gandy, Science (journal), taxpayers, Wall Street Journal, Woo-Suk Hwang, ZME Science}

Should Science Be Publicly Funded at All?

_{Science and Culture
April 25, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Planetology

5}

Waste, futility, and fraud are too frequent outcomes of taxpayer funding. Private funding could well be more intelligently directed. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, accessibility, activism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), federal employees, Free Science, free speech, government, Great Barrington Declaration, ideology, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorrff, minoritized, misinformation, National Institutes of Health, Politics, protestors, protests, research funding, scientism, scientocracy, Stand Up for Science, Sunetra Gupta, universities}

Stand Up for Science or… for Naked Ideology?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2025

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom

5}

“Stand Up for Science 2025” protests were clearly aimed at reaffirming control by the now discredited science establishment. Read More ›

NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., speaks at the 2017 Rare Disease Day at NIH.

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Author
John G. West

Date
March 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, baby parts, censorship, COVID-19, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Evangelical Christians, federal funding, Francis Collins, government, Lincoln Memorial, mandates, National Institutes of Health, persecution, price gouging, progressives, racial discrimination, scientific research, secularists, Stand Up for Science, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, United States}

Francis Collins Stands Up for DEI, High Overhead, and Unethical Research?

_{John G. West
March 10, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

5}

At least Collins has made it harder to ignore his real agenda by appearing at this partisan political rally. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
February 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Barack Obama, Biden Administration, Covid vaccines, COVID-19, Discovery Institute Press, entertainment, Evangelical Christians, faith and science, filmmakers, Francis Collins, government, Human Genome Project, journalists, law, National Institutes of Health, Politicians, professors, Research, Science (journal), scientists, Stockholm Syndrome Christian, Time Magazine}

Francis Collins and Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

_{John G. West
February 10, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

4}

Collins has been celebrated by many of his fellow evangelicals because of his acceptance by the secular establishment. Read More ›