Tag: New York State

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, Andrew Coyne, assassins, assisted suicide, California, Canada, Donald Trump, euphemisms, Hippocrates, Illinois, Illinois Legislature, illnesses, jurisdictions, medical assistance in dying, New York State, Oregon, Ryan Routh, Vermont, Woody Allen}

United States Is Becoming a Suicide Nation

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 4, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics

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We are well on the way now to becoming more like Canada, where we have seen how the euthanasia virus leads to terrible abuses. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bureaucrats, carbon trading, dams, development, ecosystems, free market, Great Lakes, human flourishing, industry, legislation, life forms, monetization, nature rights, New York State, Ohio, patenting, Toledo, water, watersheds}

New York State: Rights for Lakes, Waterways

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 13, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design

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For the future good of human flourishing, we need to take the “nature rights” movement seriously. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 21, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal rights, animal welfare, Blake Lemoine, Bronx Zoo, chatbot, courts, Google, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, LaMDA, New York State, Non-Computable You, personhood, PETA, Robert J. Marks II, Wesley J. Smith, Wired, Yuval Noah Harari}

Engineer: Failing to See His AI Program as a Person Is “Bigotry”

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 21, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Earlier this month, just in time for the release of Robert J. Marks’s book Non-Computable You, the story broke. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, activists, animal rights, animals, Bronx Zoo, children, crime, duties, elephants, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, illness, injury, judges, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, people, rights, slaves, sophistry, species barrier, women, writ of habeas corpus}

Court Rules Elephant Does Not Have Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 16, 2022

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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I have written here several times about the attempt by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP) to “break the species barrier.” Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
May 16, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Science Reporting
Tagged
, anti-Semitism, blacks, buffalo, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Columbine High School, conspiracy theory, crime, Darwinian racism, Darwinian theory, Donald Trump, evolution, Gilroy Garlic Festival, Human Zoos, mass shooting, media, Michael Denton, Nature Genetics, New York State, New York Times, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Racism, Richard Weikart, The War on Humans, Tops Friendly Market, Tucker Carlson, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, violence, Wesley Smith, white supremacy}

How Science Fueled the White Supremacist Mass Murderer in Buffalo, NY

_{John G. West
May 16, 2022

Evolution, Science Reporting

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Over the weekend, a teenage male shooter perpetrated a horrific mass murder in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 14, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, bacteria, Congress, courts, deer, ecosystems, Ecuador, elephant, fish, forests, geological features, habeas corpus, insects, laws, New York State, rivers, Switzerland, viruses, water}

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 14, 2022

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 18, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
Tagged
, college students, ecosystem, Enterprise, Florida, Great Lakes, Lake Erie, legislation, nature rights, New York State, Orange County, radicals, Toledo, watershed}

“Great Lakes Bill of Rights” Legislation Introduced

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 18, 2022

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting

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Based on the chat-room comments, I was viewed by the college students who watched as the skunk at the party for defending human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 18, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, chimpanzees, corporations, crime, elephants, Eugene M. Fahey, lawsuit, morality, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, Pachamama, persons, The Atlantic}

Elephants Are Better “Persons” Than People!

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 18, 2021

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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This misanthropic drive among the elites to is not only wrongheaded, it is dangerous. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 12, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Charles Darwin, COVID-19, deductive proof, dinosaurs, gravitational field, inductive reasoning, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jerry Coyne, Jesus Christ, Manhattan, natural science, New York State, Thomas Aquinas, unicorns, wolves}

Why an Argument for God’s Existence Is Scientific

_{Michael Egnor
April 12, 2021

Faith & Science

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Atheist evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne is a fountain of nonsensical arguments against the existence of God. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 29, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animal rights, animal standing, animal welfare, animals, Argentina, Bronx Zoo, cattle, chimpanzees, Florida, judges, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, personhood, writ of habeas corpus}

Pushing Elephant “Personhood”

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 29, 2020

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Think cattle herds suing ranchers or lab animals suing universities — not to improve care but to liberate from all human use. Read More ›