Tag: HIV

Drunk homeless man covered his face with his hands and sits on the stairs in the underpass, black and white photo.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Debra J. Saunders, drug abuse, drug abusers, Executive Order, feces, harm causation, harm reduction, HIV, human dignity, Joshua Barocas, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Market Street, medicine, mental illness, needle exchange, overdose, personal autonomy, playgrounds, public policies, safe injection sites, San Francisco, sidewalks, syringe-services programs, The New England Journal of Medicine, Trump Administration, Union Square}

“Harm Reduction” Harms the Homeless

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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San Francisco was allowing harm reducers to give away “starter kits” to people so they could begin injecting drugs! Read More ›

Male doctor holding female patient hand on the hospital bed.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animal testing, animals, Anthony Fauci, assisted suicide, bioethics, biopsies, blood draws, California, cancer, cures, euthanasia, HIV, human body, illness, Last Gift, life expectancy, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Nuremberg Code, organ farms, Peter Singer, San Diego County, spinal taps, terminal illness, tissue donation, UC San Diego, utilitarianism, viral disease, virus}

California Research Experiments on People with “Life-Shortening” Conditions

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Human beings, regardless of how sick they are or how long they are expected to live, should never be considered less worthy of protection than are animals. Read More ›

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Date
January 29, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, CIA, COVID-19, government, health, HIV, lab leak, Maryland, medicine, mRNA vaccines, public health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert R. Redfield, safety, Vaccines, virologists}

Former CDC Director: What Worked, What Didn’t, with Covid

_{Science and Culture
January 29, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Wesley J. Smith interviewed Robert R. Redfield on the public health disasters brought on by Covid and the reasons for the loss of trust in public health. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 2, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, “consensus science”, adult stem cells, anti-science, blood, bone marrow, cancer, chemotherapy, diseases, embryonic stem cells, gold standard, HIV, media, mutations, Politicians, settled science, stem cells, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Adult Stem-Cell Cure for HIV?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 2, 2024

Life Sciences, Medicine

3}

A “consensus science” that seeks to stifle open scientific inquiry and heterodox advocacy harms the scientific quest for truth. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antimalarial drugs, Casey Luskin, chloroquine, chloroquine resistance, Darwin Devolves, drugs, evolution, evolutionary processes, fitness landscape, genotype, HIV, intelligent design, Michael Behe, mutations, phenotype, Plasmodium falciparum, Professor Dave, proteins, The Edge of Evolution, YouTubers}

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: The Edge of Evolution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I wonder whether Farina has in fact read Behe’s book for himself, or whether he is relying upon others, such as Nathan Lents. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 12, 2021

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, bacteria, cancer, HIV, intelligent design, James Tour, medicine, molecular machines, nanobots, promoters, Rice University, RNA, scalpel, Stephen Meyer, viruses}

Manipulating Molecules: Combining Info + Nano for Better Medicine

_{Casey Luskin
November 12, 2021

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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“Oscar Wilde said nature imitates art,” Meyer said. And today we’re going to see that “technology is able to imitate and even in some ways, improve on nature.” Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
June 9, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, ARF, China, Emily Reeves, Erika DeBenedictis, Evolution News, Forbes, gene editing, genome, He Jiankui, HIV, Hong Kong, INK4a, intelligent design, Jordan Peterson, Marxists, Nature (journal), scientists, TEDx talk, twins, U.S. Senate, Wesley Smith}

Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God

_{Elizabeth Whately
June 9, 2021

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
December 29, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemist, common cold, coronavirus, COVID-19, DNA, Ebola, epidemic, evolution, genetic information, HIV, human genome, Immune System, intelligent design, MERS, molecular machines, mutations, philosopher, protein coat, proteins, receptor, RNA, SARS, skeleton key, virosphere, viruses}

#4 Story of 2020: Evolution, Design, and COVID-19

_{Michael Behe
December 29, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

The waves may be huge and the surface roiling, but the deeper waters continue as they always have, essentially undisturbed. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
March 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, biochemist, common cold, coronavirus, COVID-19, DNA, Ebola, epidemic, evolution, genetic information, HIV, human genome, Immune System, intelligent design, MERS, molecular machines, mutations, philosopher, protein coat, proteins, receptor, RNA, SARS, skeleton key, virosphere, viruses}

Evolution, Design, and COVID-19

_{Michael Behe
March 10, 2020

Evolution

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From time to time a storm arises in the virosphere and affects humans. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
February 4, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Charles Darwin, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian processes, evolution, FCT, function, Functional-Coded-elemenT, HIV, information, natural selection, New Scientist, On the Origin of Species, proteins, random mutation, retroviruses, RNA, The Quarterly Review of Biology}

Important Medical Effects but Modest Mutations

_{Michael Behe
February 4, 2020

Evolution

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It’s important to remember that Darwinian factors are indeed real and can have important medical effects, but they only modify life around the edges. Read More ›