2005-protest-for-Terri-Schiavo-2 Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date March 29, 2023 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineScience 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 ›
covid Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date February 2, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , COVID-19, ethnicity, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Hispanics, Latinos, Minnesota, New York City, obesity, pandemic, race, Racism, therapeutics, U.S. Constitution, United States, Utah, viruses Stop Racializing COVID Care Wesley J. Smith February 2, 2022 Bioethics, Medicine 6 How is any of this constitutional? How do these discriminatory guidelines not break federal civil rights laws? Read More ›
Wild Rice Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 12, 2021 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , CBC TV, Chippewa, Frank Bibeau, lawsuit, manoomin, Minnesota, Nature, nature rights, Ojibwe, pollution, water Wild Rice Sues to Stop Repair of Oil Pipeline Wesley J. Smith August 12, 2021 Bioethics 3 Two years ago the Ojibwe tribe granted wild rice the “right to exist,” which could be said to be a synonym for a right to life. Read More ›
Richard Lewontin Type post Author Paul Nelson Date July 6, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionEvolutionary PsychologyScience Tagged , ad hoc hypotheses, Darwinian theory, data, David Berlinski, fitness, genetics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, In Memoriam, Marxism, Minnesota, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Richard Lewontin, Suzanne Nelson, systematics, wisdom, Yiddish Richard Lewontin (1929-2021), Mensch Paul Nelson July 6, 2021 Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Science 4 As I stood by the lab doorway, Lewontin — who was sitting right down front — looked back towards the door and caught my eye. Read More ›
The_Country_of_the_Blind_by_Claude_Allin_Shepperson_3 Type post Author Geoffrey Simmons Date August 27, 2020 CategoriesAnatomyHuman ExceptionalismHuman Origins and AnthropologyIntelligent Design Tagged , animals, apes, atheism, babies, birth canal, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, childbirth, chromosomes, creativity, DNA, Doctor's Diary (series), ductus arteriosus, earthquake, Ecuador, foresight, H.G. Wells, heteropalindromes, human evolution, humans, intelligent design, invention, Marcos Eberlin, Minnesota, orphan genes, oxygen, parable, Periodic Table, phenotypes, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Tree of Life Doctor’s Diary: Evolution in the Country of the Blind Geoffrey Simmons August 27, 2020 Anatomy, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design 8 Fans of H. G. Wells are probably familiar with his 1904 short story, “The Country of the Blind.” Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date May 31, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine 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 3 In its advocacy memes, the assisted-suicide movement often lies, prevaricates, spins, word engineers, and obfuscates. Read More ›
