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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 31, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, American Medical Association, assisted suicide, death certificate, democracy, doctors, drugs, euphemism, euthanasia, families, illness, law, lethal injection, lying, medicine, mercy killing, Minnesota, overdose, patients}

Forced to Lie About Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 31, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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In its advocacy memes, the assisted-suicide movement often lies, prevaricates, spins, word engineers, and obfuscates. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
May 25, 2018

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, BBC News, education, evolution, evolutionary theory, free speech, freedom, intelligent design, law, materialism, scientists, students, Summer Seminars, tyranny, UK Parliament, United Kingdom}

UK Moves to Strengthen University Free Speech Protections

_{Sarah Chaffee
May 25, 2018

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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Stretching back to the Magna Carta, British law is strongly grounded in concepts of freedom protected from abuse by tyranny. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 8, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, evolution, evolutionary ethics, immorality, law, mind, morality, PZ Myers}

From the Annals of Evolutionary Ethics

_{Michael Egnor
February 8, 2018

Bioethics, Physics

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Immoral behavior is obviously, in some sense, behavior that transgresses a law. What kind of law? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 31, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, authoritarianism, doctors, families, futile care theory, law, medical futility, patients, Virginia}

Medical Coercion Comes to Virginia?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 31, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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Futile care theory (as I call it) or medical futility allows doctors to unilaterally refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment based on the physician’s values. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 4, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, doctors, Las Vegas, law, medicine, Nevada, pain, prescription}

Sacrificing Pain Patients to Stop Opioid Epidemic?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 4, 2018

Medicine

3}

I’m all for fighting the opioid epidemic. But not at the price of preventing patients from receiving quality medical care. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 1, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, evil, George W. Bush, law, slavery}

A New Year and a New Commitment to Eradicate Human Trafficking

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 1, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Human exceptionalism holds that every one of us is inherently equal, in moral value, and properly, under the law. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 9, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, Colorado River, courts, law, lawsuit, nature rights, radicals, river rights}

Colorado River Gives Up on Lawsuit

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 9, 2017

Bioethics

1}

Stop coddling the radicals who are abusing our courts. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 15, 2017

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __nedited, animal rights, animal welfare, chimpanzees, Connecticut, currency, dolphins, elephants, humans, inflation, law, personhood, PETA, property, zoo}

Elephants Sue for Habeas Corpus

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 15, 2017

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism

3}

The point here isn’t to prevent abuse, if it exists. We have animal-welfare laws for that. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 10, 2012

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, academic freedom, Darwin, history, law, science, Tennessee}

A New Book Poses the Question: At the Birth of Modern Science, Was Darwin Present — or AWOL?

_{Michael Flannery
April 10, 2012

Evolution

1}

In The Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura J. Snyder feels compelled to make the founders of modern science Darwin-friendly. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 5, 2012

Categories
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, academic freedom, academic freedom bills, Jerry Coyne, law, Moshe Averick, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, Tennessee}

On the “Settled” Science of Darwinian Theory, Tennessee’s Evolution Lobby Is Simply Bluffing

_{Casey Luskin
April 5, 2012

Legal Science (jurisprudence), Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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Darwinists are working hard to pressure Governor Haslam into vetoing an academic freedom bill that has passed both houses in that state. Read More ›