Tag: public policy

Carer in latex gloves feeding an aged lady

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 4, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, advance directive, autonomy, caregivers, chemotherapy, comfort feeding, death, dementia, Dementia-Specific Advance Directives, dignity, euthanasia, feeding tubes, food, kidney dialysis, medical treatments, New Jersey, nourishment, public policy, spoon-feeding, undernourishment, water}

Mission to Kill Dementia Patients Moves Forward

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 4, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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By all means, prohibit forced feeding, but also provide that patients be given all nourishment they want. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 2, 2026

Categories
Earth Sciences
Environment & Climate
Tagged
, agency, Andes, climate, ecocide, environmental policy, environmentalism, ethnic cleansing, genocide, geological features, glaciers, Great Lakes, human beings, Ice Age, India, indigenous peoples, legal rights, National Geographic, natural entities, nature rights, Pachamama, PLOS Climate, public policy, religion, science journals, snow}

Climate Science Journal Trumpets Glaciers’ “Right to Exist”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 2, 2026

Earth Sciences, Environment & Climate

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Glaciers are made up of snow that over millennia compacted into ice. They grow or shrink based on climate. They are geological features. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
December 12, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Alabama, biologic institute, California Science Center, Casey Luskin, Charles Marshall, Cornell University, Darwin’s Dilemma, Darwin’s Doubt, Discovery Institute, education, George Church, Granville Sewell, Illustra Media, intelligent design, John E. Jones, junk DNA, Kevin Padian, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Louisiana, Louisiana Science Education Act, Martin Gaskell, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, National Center for Science Education, Nature (journal), New Mexico, Nick Matzke, Pennsylvania, public policy, South Carolina, Ten Myths About Dover, Tennessee, Texas, Thomas Nagel, Times Literary Supplement, University of Kentucky}

Ten Myths About Dover: No. 10, “The Intelligent Design Movement Died After Dover”

_{Sarah Chaffee
December 12, 2025

Intelligent Design, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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In December 2005, Judge John E. Jones ruled that intelligent design is not science, but religion. Critics predicted this would mean the end of the ID movement. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethics, Canada, Charles Camosy, consensus, doctors, George W. Bush, human life, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, Leon Kass, medical ethics, Ontario, orthodoxy, Paul Ramsey, philosophers, President’s Council on Bioethics, professors, public health, public policy, tradition}

Contrary to Claims, Bioethics Is Not a “Moral Tradition”

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 14, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Talk about a “heads we win, tails you lose” consensus that can drive Hippocratic physicians out of the profession. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, accountability, brain, Bruce Chapman, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, chimpanzees, culture, Denyse O'Leary, Donald Trump, evolution, evolutionists, Executive Order, Federal Government, healing, homelessness, Housing First, humans, intelligent design, Jonathan Choe, journalism, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, Michael Medved, mind, near-death experiences, Plato’s Revenge, public policy, Richard Sternberg, soul, The Immortal Mind, The Varieties of Religious Experience, treatment, William James}

Homelessness, Intelligent Design, and the Unseen Realm

_{David Klinghoffer
July 25, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Compared with previous approaches, the new Executive Order reflects a fundamentally different picture of reality. What should we call it? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 3, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, First Amendment, free speech, gender-affirming care, government, medicine, New York Times, public health, public policy, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, Washington DC}

The Wrong Tool to Fix Woke Science Journals

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 3, 2025

Medicine, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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The government has no business pressuring medical journals about their content — no matter how biased. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Psychology
Sociology
Tagged
, anxiety, college students, crying, Office of Naval Research, persistent scientific errors, prisoners, psychologists, public policy, Retraction Crisis, Retraction Watch, self-correcting, social psychology, Stanford University, University of Calgary}

Retract the Stanford Prison Experiment?

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 21, 2025

Bioethics, Psychology, Sociology

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Beware of wildly popular sociology that tells us that our public policy preferences are somehow embedded in human nature. Life was never as simple as that. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 30, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Tagged
, colonialism, conservation, duties, environmentalism, indigenous people, mountains, nature rights, New Zealand, powers, public policy, responsibilities, rights, Santa Monica, Yellowstone}

This Mountain Is Now a “Person” with “Rights” and Even “Responsibilities”

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 30, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate

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And what responsibilities can the mountain possibly assume? Can it be sued for an avalanche? Ridiculous! Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 14, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, capitalism, colonialism, COVID-19, pandemic, public policy, Research, Science (journal), science journals, technocracy, Vaccines, woke ideology}

Top U.S. Science Journal Calls for Dismantling Capitalism

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 14, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Establishing a quasi-socialistic technocratic approach — focused on equity instead of excellence — would stifle innovation. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 19, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, AIDS, Anthony Fauci, CDC, City Journal, COVID-19, diseases, FDA, Francis Collins, James B. Meigs, Jay Bhattacharya, journalists, lawmakers, power, public policy, scientists, vaccine mandates}

What Turned an Esteemed Doctor into a Scheming Authoritarian?

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 19, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Fauci damaged his own reputation by trashing sound scientists, denouncing inconvenient evidence, and even going so far as to say “I represent science.” Read More ›