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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, animals, Aristotle, behavior, Dogs, emotions, evolutionary biologists, feelings, humans, Marc Bekoff, Michael Egnor, moral choice, prejudice, Psychology Today, Racism, sensations, sexism, speciesism, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, Wesley J. Smith}

Clinical Psychologist Supports Human Exceptionalism

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 4, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology, Scientific Reasoning

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Gregg Henriques, a secular humanist, has developed an approach that accepts human exceptionalism without denying that animals have mental abilities. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 10, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Big Think, Dartmouth College, free will, John Horgan, Michael Egnor, militarism, Mind Matters, Minding the Brain, proofs, quantum mechanics, Racism, sexism, The Immortal Mind}

Can There Be Evidence for Free Will?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 10, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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John Horgan thinks that “proofs” of free will seem as dubious as denials but there is actually considerable neuroscience evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 25, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, California, Canada, climate change, economy, government, medical assistance in dying, pesticides, public health, Racism, Second Amendment, smoking, suicide}

For Suicide, Disguised “Public Health” Policies Aren’t the Solution

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 25, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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The authors even suggest regulations controlling the manufacture of ceiling fans because some people have used the mechanisms to hang themselves. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 10, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, euthanasia, experts, freedom, gender-affirming care, government, mastectomies, medical establishment, Nature (journal), organ harvesting, puberty blockers, public health, Racism, Science (journal), technocracy, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, United Nations, vaccine mandates, WHO}

For Your Own Good: The Looming Health Authoritarianism

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 10, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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If you want to see what is going to go wrong with society next, read the professional journals. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 10, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethicists, democracy, employment, global warming, homelessness, Iran, Israel, professors, Racism, Ukraine, virtue-signaling, Vladimir Putin, war}

Blessed Are the Peacemakers, for They Shall Be Called Bioethicists

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 10, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Can you see it? Putin calling the Hastings Center and asking for a bioethics consultation before invading Ukraine. Read More ›

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
May 30, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Communism, eugenics, Islam, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Ku Klux Klan, Margaret Sanger, Martin Luther King Jr., Mein Kampf, Michael Flannery, Planned Parenthood, Racism, William Graham, World War I}

How the Christian Civil Rights Movement Defeated Social Darwinism and Eugenics

_{John Zmirak
May 30, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution

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American apostles of Darwinism had begun the 20th century weaponizing common racist attitudes to popularize Darwin’s theory Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
May 29, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, aborigines, Africans, Alfred Russel Wallace, baboons, Caucasians, Charles Darwin, Europeans, fossil record, gorillas, history, HMS Beagle, humans, intelligence, John Stuart Mill, On the Origin of Species, Racism, Richard Weikart, species, stem, Texas, The Descent of Man, Tierra del Fuego, United Nations}

Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps

_{Jonathan Witt
May 29, 2024

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Scientific Reasoning

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A defender of Darwinism might object that it’s silly to ding Darwin for his racism, since just about every white person in Victorian England was racist. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", argument from ignorance, blacks, Ernst Mayr, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Huffington Post, intelligent design, Jacques Monod, James Barham, James Shapiro, Peter Corning, Racism, University of Chicago, vital force, vitalism}

Is Vitalism Making a Comeback?

_{Daniel Witt
May 21, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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For proponents of ID, there is a natural temptation to respond to this sort of explanation with derision. I suspect this reaction may be short-sighted. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 2, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, biodiversity, Dubai, equity, experts, global warming, guns, health, ideology, medical journals, natural world, public health, Racism, technocracy, World Health Organization}

Woke Watch: The Ideological Transformation of Medical Journals

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 2, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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Now, the political alarm is over "planetary health," which covers a lot of, er, ground. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 5, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Education
Tagged
, Australopithecines, biological origins, butterfly, California Science Center, Cambrian Explosion, chimpanzees, Christmas, David Coppedge, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, free speech, French Revolution, Genetics (journal), Günter Bechly, human brains, human origins, Human Zoos, humans, intelligent design, Jeffrey Schwartz, John West, mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Niles Eldredge, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Racism, Richard Sternberg, Rick Potts, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, scientific racism, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Washington DC, Zeus}

Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More

_{Casey Luskin
October 5, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Education

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Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal," perhaps Morganucodon. Read More ›