Tag: lawyers

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethics, Canada, Charles Camosy, consensus, doctors, George W. Bush, human life, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, Leon Kass, medical ethics, moral tradition, Ontario, orthodoxy, patient choice, Paul Ramsey, philosophers, President’s Council on Bioethics, professors, progressive politics, public health, public policy, The Emerging Tradition of Secular Bioethics, tradition}

Contrary to Claims, Bioethics Is Not a “Moral Tradition”

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 14, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Talk about a “heads we win, tails you lose” consensus that can drive Hippocratic physicians out of the profession. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 7, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, argument in the alternative, attorneys, biology, Casey Luskin, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwinian evolution, defining id, defining science, definist fallacy, demarcation criteria, evidence, evidence for id, evolution, geologists, historical sciences, ID research program, intelligent design, lawyers, natural world, non-science, peer-reviewed literature, predictive-success, Research, science, scientific method, testability}

The Divide Between Science and Non-Science

_{David Klinghoffer
July 7, 2025

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The most commonly heard charge against ID is that it “isn’t science” and therefore can’t even be evaluated as a scientific alternative to Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 3, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animals, bioethicists, brains, doctors, experts, human life, humans, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, organoids, philosophers, rats, Research, speciesism, unborn humans}

We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals”

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 3, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Bioethics is a utilitarianish social-political movement whose primary advocates are usually philosophers, lawyers, and/or doctors. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 26, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, anti-racism, assisted suicide, bioethicists, disability, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), embryonic stem cells, equity, experts, Gaza, gender, gobbledygook, Hastings Center Report, health, human cloning, lawyers, medical conscience, philosophers, pro-life, progressive ideology, race, Roman Catholic, Second Amendment, sexuality, technocracy, woke ideology}

Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 26, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

It seems to me that the best approach to the policy opinions of mainstream bioethicists is to consider the source, shrug, and carry on. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 11, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, culture, fauna, flora, geological features, lawyers, Mother Nature, nature rights, Pachamama, personhood, private sector, radicalism, virtue-signaling}

Company Names “Nature” to Board of Directors

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 11, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Life Sciences

4}

Look what a frivolous culture we are becoming, with the private sector increasingly fueling our intellectual and moral decline. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 29, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Africa, bacteria, Biomimetics, birds, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwin Comes to Africa, Darwinists, drone, evolution, evolutionary pressure, human history, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, lawyers, Michael Behe, NASA, Olufemi Oluniyi, owls, personification, Rwanda, shopping, Social Darwinism, vitalism}

Engineering Brings Life and Vice Versa

_{David Coppedge
March 29, 2023

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Science

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An uplifting video about a life-saving invention encapsulates several running themes about intelligent design, with only one brief flaw. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 13, 2022

Categories
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, Alex Jones, attorneys, breasts, children, England, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, ideology, lawyers, mastectomies, money, puberty blocking, television, transphobia, trial lawyers}

Unleash the Trial Lawyers to End Mutilation of Gender-Dysphoric Children

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 13, 2022

Medicine, Science

4}

In my experience — as a once-practicing trial attorney — when the smell of money is in the water, ideology is generally not the first priority. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 13, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animal rights, China, environmentalism, extremists, lawmakers, lawsuits, lawyers, liberty, nature, nature rights, transgenderism, tyrants, United Kingdom}

The Law Society in UK Endorses “Nature Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 13, 2022

Bioethics, Culture, Human Exceptionalism

4}

In other words, we should redefine our self-understanding as being just another species in the forest. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 17, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, animals, Bible, Chinese, code, Counting to God, doubt, Douglas Ell, Edgar Allan Poe, Egypt, English, Evolution News, faith, Hebrew Bible, humanity, intelligent design, lawyers, MIT, Russian, science, Sherlock Holmes, Spanish, Talmud, teenagers, translation, William Shakespeare}

ID Made Sassy: A New Book for Young People

_{David Klinghoffer
December 17, 2020

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Scientific Reasoning

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Douglas Ell's concept is a dialogue between Doubt and Reason, who sass each other merrily. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Biola University, California, Christianity Today, evolution, ID the Future, India, intelligent design, John Bloom, lawyers, Pajaro Dunes meeting, Phillip E. Johnson, podcast, rhetoric, Robert Crowther, Southern California}

Phillip Johnson: The “Mahatma” of the Intelligent Design Movement

_{David Klinghoffer
November 6, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Johnson spotted the slick tactics in evolutionary arguments, “the same rhetorical tricks that clever lawyers use when they have to defend a flawed case in court.” Read More ›