Tag: intelligentsia

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 24, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, agency, anthropomorphizing, arctic ice, Arctic Institute, Arctic sea ice, cattle ranches, crabs, elements, fossil fuel, geological features, glacier rights, human exceptionalism, humans, ice melt, intelligentsia, Jim Hightower, minerals, mystification, National Geographic Society, nature rights, NGOs, persons, rights of nature, sea ice, University of Helsinki}

Will You Take Ice with That? The Latest Madness from Nature Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 24, 2026

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Ice has no agency. It is frozen water. Water contains minerals and other elements. Do they have rights, too? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 13, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alex Rosenberg, brain, Carlo Rovelli, Cheshire Cat, David A. Oakley, Duke University, eliminative materialism, folk psychology, George Orwell, Harry G. Frankfurt, illusion, intelligentsia, Joe Gough, Michael Egnor, mind, naturalism, neuroscience, Patricia Churchland, Peter L. Halligan, philosophers, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Metzinger, University of Mainz}

“Mind as an Illusion” Makes No Sense

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 13, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Philosophers of mind using their minds to prove that there is no mind do not help the credibility of their discipline. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, advocacy, dams, flowing, Great Lakes, intelligentsia, nature rights, neo-pagan mysticism, Pachamama, rivers, water}

Nature Right Pushes Neo-Pagan Mysticism at Highest Academic Levels

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 25, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism

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Most recently, the Harvard Kennedy School hosted a symposium on “nature rights” undergirded by “indigenous knowledge.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, academics, animals, Anthony Fauci, biologists, COVID-19, curriculum, disease, doctors, ecosystems, health, human existence, humans, intelligentsia, nurses, people, pharmacists, policy, public health, technocrats, The Lancet, well-being, Wesley J. Smith}

Redefining Health to Impose International Technocracy

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 18, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Technology

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The public-health intelligentsia and bioethics movement are determined to become the primary policy decision makers internationally. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, books, censorship, George Orwell, Great Britain, groupthink, intellectuals, intelligentsia, Joseph Stalin, literature, satire, Soviet Union, totalitarianism, Utopia, Winston Churchill}

Recalling Orwell’s Timely Warning on Groupthink

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 14, 2023

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom

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The censorship he had to address was not a conspiracy or even a campaign; it was spontaneous. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
April 23, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, astrology, elitism, evolutionary theory, intelligentsia, Ivy League, materialism, New York Times, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Ross Douthat, secularists, Stephen Meyer}

God Hypothesis in the Elitist’s Eye

_{Bethel McGrew
April 23, 2021

Faith & Science

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The secularist is right to feel uncomfortable as he mouths a theistic creed. Theists, for their part, should respect this reluctance. Read More ›