researchers Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date August 25, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignOrigin of Life Tagged , Bruce Lipshutz, challenge, Clemens Richert, Dave Farina, Jack Szostak, James Tour, John Sutherland, judges, Lee Cronin, Nicholas Hud, Professor Dave Explains, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, researchers, Rice University, Steve Benner, Twitter, YouTube videos Origin of Life: James Tour’s Sensational 60-Day Challenge to Ten Top Researchers David Klinghoffer August 25, 2023 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life 3 I suppose someone could try to explain why the challenge is unfair or not relevant to the field. That would be very difficult to do. Read More ›
Injection_Syringe_01 Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date March 22, 2023 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineScience Tagged , Canada, cerebral palsy, crime, culture, euthanasia, human life, insulin, Jack Kevorkian, judges, manslaughter, murder, Robert Latimer Euthanasia’s Cultural Collateral Damage: Less Respect for Human Life Wesley J. Smith March 22, 2023 Bioethics, Medicine, Science 3 Canada has fallen off the euthanasia moral cliff by allowing broad categories of people to be killed by doctors as a means of ending “suffering.” Read More ›
elephant Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date June 16, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsScience Reporting Tagged , activists, animal rights, animals, Bronx Zoo, children, crime, duties, elephants, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, illness, injury, judges, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, people, rights, slaves, sophistry, species barrier, women, writ of habeas corpus Court Rules Elephant Does Not Have Rights Wesley J. Smith June 16, 2022 Bioethics, Science Reporting 4 I have written here several times about the attempt by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP) to “break the species barrier.” Read More ›
elephant Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date November 29, 2020 CategoriesBioethicsHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , animal rights, animal standing, animal welfare, animals, Argentina, Bronx Zoo, cattle, chimpanzees, Florida, judges, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, personhood, writ of habeas corpus Pushing Elephant “Personhood” Wesley J. Smith November 29, 2020 Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism 3 Think cattle herds suing ranchers or lab animals suing universities — not to improve care but to liberate from all human use. Read More ›
1280px-Biandintz_eta_zaldiak_-_modified2 Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 21, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , __k-review, animal standing, animals, Argentina, chimpanzees, Congress, horses, judges, law, lawsuits, litigation, monkeys, Oregon, pets, rationality, San Francisco Chronicle, whales, zoo When Horses Sue Wesley J. Smith August 21, 2018 Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism 4 “Animal standing” would open the courts to lawsuits brought by animals. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date May 1, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Alfie Evans, bioethicists, Charlie Gard, doctors, experts, futile care theory, health care, hospital, illness, judges, life support, medicine, parents, patients, technocracy Alfie Evans, a Victim of Technocracy Wesley J. Smith May 1, 2018 Bioethics, Medicine 4 This was about raw power. If Alfie had escaped the diktat, there would soon be others demanding their freedom too. Read More ›
airplane nose down Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date August 24, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __edited, airplane, assisted suicide, doctors, ID the Future, judges, legislators, Michael Egnor, Ray Bohlin Michael Egnor: How Assisted Suicide Corrupts Medicine and Medical Doctors David Klinghoffer August 24, 2017 Bioethics, Medicine 2 “A doctor killing a patient is analogous to a pilot deliberately crashing a plane.” Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date July 28, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Charlie Gard, culture, doctors, judges, medicine, parental rights, United Kingdom, utilitarianism Charlie Gard Has Died Wesley J. Smith July 28, 2017 Bioethics, Medicine 1 There will be much more to say about the utilitarian drift of medicine and the increasing loss of patient autonomy. Read More ›