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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, children, cyberspace, Friedrich Nietzsche, gender dysphoria, hormones, lifestyle, mastectomies, Medicaid, mental illness, penis, puberty, Singularity, spinal cord, Stanford University, surgery, transableism, transgenderism, transhumanism, Transhumanist Bill of Rights, uterus, uterus transplant, vagina, zealotry}

We’re Seeing the First Wave of Applied Transhumanism

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 27, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

OK. Let’s get real. Most of the morphological transformations for which transhumanists yearn will almost surely never come to pass. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 23, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, abandonment, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, Canadians, doctors, euthanasia, Hippocratic Oath, lethal injection, mental illness, Netherlands, New York Times, patients, policymakers, prescription, psychiatry, suicide, suicide crisis, United States}

NYT Pushes Suicide for the Mentally Ill

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 23, 2023

Bioethics, Science Reporting

4}

Clancy Martin’s first paragraph makes clear why his thesis should be rejected out of hand. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, advance directive, California, Canada, Colorado, compassion, Connecticut, dehydration, disabilities, District of Columbia, euthanasia, feeding tube, Hawaii, heart, human life, kidneys, liver, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, mental illness, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, new york, nihilism, Oregon, organ transplant, pancreas, Rhode Island, suicide tourism, Terri Schiavo, Vermont, VSED}

A Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

5}

A legal battle raged for several years during which the country agonized and argued about the right and moral course. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arkansas, bread, commitment, Dallas, Darwinism, evolution, Jason Rosenhouse, mental illness, police, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: An Appeal to Sanity

_{William A. Dembski
September 6, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

I’ll close with a story. My wife used to set up psychiatric units across the U.S. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 3, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Canada, conscience rights, COVID-19, culture, dementia, effective referral, euthanasia, lockdown, loneliness, mental illness, Ontario, organ harvesting, suicide prevention, United States}

10,000+ Canadian Euthanasia Killings in 2021

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 3, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

3}

The statistics are startling and illustrate that once euthanasia consciousness infects a culture, it grows like a fungus. Read More ›

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Author
Kenneth Feucht

Date
March 25, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Psychology
Tagged
, B. F. Skinner, crime, Crime and Punishment, culture, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, evolution, Fyodor Dostoevsky, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, mental illness, Neo-Darwinism, Portland State University, punishment, rehabilitation, sex education, Weltanschauung}

Darwinism and the “So What?” Question: John West’s Darwin Day in America

_{Kenneth Feucht
March 25, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Psychology

5}

At first glance, it might seem that whether we believe in evolution as a purely material, unguided process should make no difference to values or morality. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 21, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, advance directive, Alzheimer’s disease, assisted suicide, dementia, despair, disabilities, doctors, family, infanticide, killing, legislation, lethal injection, mental illness, Netherlands, organ harvesting, patients, Reuters}

Dutch Supreme Court Approves Euthanasia for Dementia

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 21, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

The Reuters story leaves out some details. The doctor had drugged the woman before starting to euthanize her, and instructed the family to hold the struggling patient down. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
January 13, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Abraham Lincoln, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association of Theological Schools, Barbara McClintock, Brooklyn College, Buddha, central dogma, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian, Discovery Institute, Divine Foot, Douglas Futuyma, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biology, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, Francisco Ayala, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, James Shapiro, James Watson, jesus, John Avise, Luther College, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, mental illness, Moses, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), North American Teilhard Society, Paul, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, skeptics, sociobiology, Stanford University, Stephen Jay Gould, teleology, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, William Provine}

Religion, Science, and Evolution: Confessions of a Darwinian Skeptic

_{Robert Shedinger
January 13, 2020

Faith & Science

30}

As I read through the scientific literature of evolutionary biology to try and convince myself of its accuracy and coherence, I was struck by the frequency with which I encountered “religious” language. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 15, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, ALS, Belgium, Canada, doctor, euthanasia, Globe and Mail, Hippocratic Oath, MAiD, medical aid in dying, mental illness, Netherlands, nurse practitioner, Ontario, pediatricians}

Quebec Court Declares Euthanasia “Foreseeable Death” Limitation Unconstitutional

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 15, 2019

Medicine

4}

A few years ago, the Supreme Court of Canada conjured a positive right in the Canadian Charter (constitution) to euthanasia. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 19, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Psychology
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, brain, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Finding Darwin's God, Francis Collins, Human Zoos, Kenneth Miller, mental illness, metaphysical naturalism, methodological naturalism, National Institutes of Health, North American Teilhard Society, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, psychiatry, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

What’s at Stake in the Debate over Darwinism?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 19, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Psychology

6}

We know that Darwinian evolution has a long and sordid history of entanglement with issues of race, racism, and eugenics. Read More ›