Tag: kidney

Veterinarian in protective clothing tending to a pig on a farm, emphasizing animal care and health management

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 7, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, AIDS, animal experiments, animal research, animals, bodily systems, brain, Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy, dialysis, Edward Taub, federal funding, human organs, human research, Jesse Gelsinger, kidney, Make America Healthy Again, medicine, monkeys, organ transplant, pigs, plasticity, primates, Research, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., surgery, Towana Looney, World War II}

For MAHA’s Sake, Don’t Eliminate Animal Experimentation

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 7, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Years ago, Dr. Edward Taub hypothesized that brain function could exhibit greater plasticity than it was believed at the time. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, China, crime, Daily Mail, Falun Gong, human organs, kidney, murder, Nigeria, organ-harvesting, political prisoners}

Purchasers of Black-Market Human Organs Often Complicit in Murder

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 8, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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The black market in human organs does not receive nearly enough attention. China is probably the worst offender. 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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Date
June 30, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, ATP, brain, cilium, Current Biology, Darwin's Black Box, death, diseases, heart, Irreducible Complexity, kidney, kinesin, liver, Michael Behe, microtubules, organelles, The Edge of Evolution}

Cilium and Intraflagellar Transport: More Irreducibly Complex than Ever

_{Science and Culture
June 30, 2021

Intelligent Design

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Another of Michael Behe’s molecular machines gets an update. The details are even more fascinating than originally described. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 18, 2021

Categories
Linguistics
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, blood, central nervous system, conjoined twins, DNA, ears, genes, heart, intelligent design, kidney, kidneys, lungs, neighbors, ribosomes, soul, spinal cord}

Are Human Brain Transplants Even Possible?

_{Michael Egnor
March 18, 2021

Linguistics, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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I believe the intelligent design perspective may offer insight into the peculiar inability of central nervous system tissue to regenerate. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 11, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, ALS, altruism, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, death, euthanasia, Groningen protocol, humanity, infanticide, kidney, surgeons, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, vultures}

“Surgeons as ‘Vultures’”: Medical Journal Pushes Harvesting Kidneys from Dying Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 11, 2020

Medicine

4}

When organ-transplant medicine was launched, a wary society was solemnly promised that organs would be taken only from the dead. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 24, 2019

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, China, Communist Party, heart, human rights, kidney, liver, New Scientist, organs, Retraction Watch}

Fifteen Science Papers Retracted Over China Illegal Organ Harvesting

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 24, 2019

Ethics, Medicine

2}

Human-rights activists have castigated China for allowing this organ bazaar for years. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
September 12, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Albert Einstein, calcium, Claude Bernard, homeostasis, Howard Glicksman, J. Scott Turner, kidney, Michael Denton, neo-Darwinian processes, Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It, temperature}

In Purpose & Desire, Out Today, Scott Turner Explores Biology’s Second Law

_{Ann Gauger
September 12, 2017

Intelligent Design

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As Turner says, homeostasis is an exceedingly strange idea. Yet without homeostasis there is no life. Read More ›