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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 3, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alfie Evans, authoritarianism, brain, Canada, Charlie Gard, death, doctor, experts, freedom, health-care rationing, hospital, medicine, mind, North America, patients, technocracy, Texas, United Kingdom}

Medical Authoritarianism Continues to Expand

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September 3, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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We live in a time where individual freedom is under material threat from an emerging technocracy. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Metascience
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, censorship, COVID-19, embryonic stem cells, evidence-based medicine, Francis Collins, gender-affirming care, Great Barrington Declaration, Harvard University, hydroxychloroquine, ideology, medical establishment, medicine, Oxford University, p-hacking, plausibility, Politics, science-based medicine, scientism, Stanford University, The Lancet, trust, Vaccines, World Professional Association for Transgender Health}

Shift from “Evidence-Based” to “Science-Based” Medicine Would Stifle Debate

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Metascience, Scientific Freedom, Scientific Trustworthiness

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Trust must be earned, not imposed. Information gatekeepers can be wrong. The danger of censorship in the name of “science” is growing. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aesthetics, birds, childhood, ears, emotions, evolutionary adaptation, hearing, lyrics, medicine, mental health, mind, music, planets, Plato, pulsars, soul, sound waves, speech, sun, UC Berkeley, YouTube videos}

The Human Mind Is Wired for Music: How Did That Come About?

_{Eric Hedin
August 22, 2023

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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Most of us can correctly remember melodies and lyrics learned in childhood, even years after last having heard them. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 19, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, babies, Center for Bioethics and Culture, doctors, eugenics, feelings, females, gestation, human experimentation, ideology, Jennifer Lahl, males, medicine, pregnancy, testosterone, transgenderism, transphobia, women}

Sacrificing Pre-Natal Wellness for Gender Ideology

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July 19, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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We're told that applying a precautionary principle to protecting gestating babies is transphobic and akin to eugenics. Read More ›

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Date
July 7, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, "poor design", Darwinian evolution, Howard Glicksman, Humanize, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, medicine, Steve Laufmann, systems engineering, Wesley J. Smith, Your Designed Body}

Engineering, not Evolution, Explains the Body

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July 7, 2023

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Laufmann and Glicksman point to essential systems within systems within systems — irreducible complexity cubed, if you will. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abandonment, Canada, compassion, disability, doctors, euthanasia, health care, housing, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, medicine, nurse practitioners, Ontario, PTSD, quadriplegia, veterans}

Canadian Disabled Woman Opts for Euthanasia Because She Can’t Get Timely Assistance

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June 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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I am hearing about this kind of abandonment much more often since Canada loosened its euthanasia eligibility requirements. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 21, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted dying, Canada, Daily Mail, doctors, Hippocratic Oath, medicine, neutrality, Ontario, patients, suicide, United Kingdom, United States, well-being}

Medical Association Goes “Neutral” on Killing Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 21, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Doctors should lead on crucial moral and issues such as this, not be merely flotsam and jetsam. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 7, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, children, COVID-19, de-transitioners, drugs, gender-affirming care, girls, Great Barrington Declaration, hospitalization, Humanize, ideology, Jay Bhattacharya, medicine, mortality, natural immunity, Norfolk Group, pandemic, podcast, propaganda, suicide, transgenderism, transmission, vaccine, World Professional Association for Transgender Health}

To Restore Faith in Public Health, We Need Truth Commissions

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June 7, 2023

Medicine, Scientific Freedom

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We have seen the erosion of the scientific method through the suppression of dissenting points of view. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, abortion, artificial intelligence, babies, ChatGPT, chimpanzees, computer, dementia, human life, humans, infanticide, infants, medicine, persons, Peter Singer, pregnancy, Princeton University, self-awareness, sentience, unborn baby, unconsciousness}

Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

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May 8, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Philosophy

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Singer first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
April 13, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
History of Science
Mathematics
Tagged
, Age of Illumination, Age of Reason, Alhazen, Bede, Christianity, conflict myth, Euclid, experiments, flat earth, Galileo Galilei, history, Ibn al-Haytham, Jerry Coyne, Johannes Kepler, Literal Commentary on Genesis, medicine, medieval Church, Medieval science, Middle Ages, Myth of the Dark Ages, Oxford University, Ptolemy, Roger Bacon, Roman Catholic, Saint Augustine, science and religion, The Nature of Things, University of Bologna, Walter Laird, Warfare Thesis}

Rumors of War and Evidence of Peace Between Science and Christianity

_{Mike Keas
April 13, 2023

Astronomy, Faith & Science, History of Science, Mathematics

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The institution in which most scholars investigated natural motion is also noteworthy — the university. This invention began with the University of Bologna. Read More ›