In the U.K., Another Shut-Off-the-Baby’s-Life-Support Case

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 22, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Forcing this baby to die when there is no diagnosis would be an act of naked medical authoritarianism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 21, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, China, creation, CRISPR, disease, embryo, evolution, gene editing, human nature, medicine, National Geographic, organ transplant, pandemic, Research, sheep, terrorism}

Hybrid Sheep-Human Embryos Show Need for Biotech Regulation

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 21, 2018

Bioethics, Life Sciences, Medicine

2}

Biotech is rocketing forward into areas that impact life at the most fundamental and basic levels. Read More ›

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Date
February 20, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Charles Darwin, Darwin Day in America, Darwinian medicine, eugenics, John West, Jonathan Wells, Karl Pearson, Louis Pasteur, medicine, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, microbes, Nazism, public health, The Edge of Evolution, Zombie Science (book)}

Irreconcilable Differences: Can Darwinism Be Pasteurized?

_{Science & Culture
February 20, 2018

Evolution, Medicine

10}

An advocate for Darwinian medicine wants to bring two historical opponents in the design debate, Pasteur and Darwin, into a peace treaty for the good of public health. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 26, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, conscience rights, doctors, faith, human life, medicine, patients, physicians, technocrats}

Medical Establishment Opposes Conscience Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 26, 2018

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

2}

The Massachusetts Medical Society wants their pro-life colleagues, and those who believe in the Hippocratic Oath, to be forced to violate religious and moral beliefs. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 6, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, experiments, feelings, Ingrid Newkirk, laboratory, medicine, mice, neurons, Nuremberg Code, PETA, Research, schizophrenia, thinking, wrist}

Animal Researchers Should Be Proud

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 6, 2018

Medicine

4}

We are often awed at the medical miracles that save so many of our lives and alleviate unquantifiable levels of human suffering. 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
Sarah Chaffee

Date
November 21, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, data, evolution, evolutionary biology, John Ioannidis, medicine, narrative gloss, Nautilus, Philip Ball, Research, science, skepticism, Stanford University, storytelling, University of Virginia}

Science on the Rocks

_{Sarah Chaffee
November 21, 2017

Evolution, Life Sciences, Medicine

2}

Perhaps confidence in science can, at times, undermine science itself. How much real history has evolutionary storytelling obscured? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, Belgium, crime, culture of death, despair, homicide, medicine, murder, psychiatry, The Guardian}

The Story of Mark van Dongen

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

This is an awful story but it shows how the assisted suicide movement greatly harms the culture and despairing individuals at their times of greatest vulnerability. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 14, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, controversy, death, Department of Health and Human Services, embryology, fertilization, health, life, medicine, public health, science}

Controversial! HHS to Define Life in Line with Embryology Textbooks

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 14, 2017

Bioethics, Biology, Life Sciences, Medicine

2}

The Department of Health and Human Services has published a draft strategic plan for 2018-2022. Read More ›

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Date
October 1, 2017

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, breathing, Evolution News, hemoglobin, Howard Glicksman, human body, ID the Future, intelligent design, medicine, oxygen, Ray Bohlin}

How the Body Meets Its Need for Oxygen

_{Science & Culture
October 1, 2017

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Medicine

1}

Finely tuned and exquisitely engineered, this system gave our ancestors enough oxygen not only to stay alive but to thrive in the face of a hostile environment. Read More ›