veterinarian-in-protective-clothing-tending-to-a-pig-on-a-fa-1822913635-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date January 7, 2026 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , AIDS, animal experiments, animal research, animals, bodily systems, brain, Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy, dialysis, Edward Taub, federal funding, human organs, human research, Jesse Gelsinger, kidney, Make America Healthy Again, medicine, monkeys, organ transplant, pigs, plasticity, primates, Research, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., surgery, Towana Looney, World War II For MAHA’s Sake, Don’t Eliminate Animal Experimentation Wesley J. Smith January 7, 2026 Bioethics, Medicine 5 Years ago, Dr. Edward Taub hypothesized that brain function could exhibit greater plasticity than it was believed at the time. Read More ›
pig Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date October 15, 2023 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , Belgium, Canada, Cornell University, human life, kidneys, Netherlands, organ transplant, organs, Peter Singer, pigs, surgery Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs Wesley J. Smith October 15, 2023 Bioethics, Medicine 4 A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least. Read More ›
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, euthanasia, Hawaii, heart, human life, kidneys, liver, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, mental illness, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, new york, nihilism, Oregon, organ transplant, 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 ›
pig Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 6, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, animal rights, animals, bioengineering, blood vessels, computers, euthanasia, George W. Bush, hearts, Human, kidneys, lungs, organ transplant, pigs, Research, rodents, Science News, scientists, stem cells, United States Lab-Grown Lungs Transplanted into Pigs Wesley J. Smith August 6, 2018 Bioethics, Medicine 2 The human organ shortage is one of the great bioethical dilemmas of our time. Expanding the organ supply is a matter of life and death. Read More ›
sheep Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date February 21, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsLife SciencesMedicine 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 ›
