clem-onojeghuo-DoA2duXyzRM-unsplash Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date March 12, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsScientific Freedom Tagged , academic freedom, accessibility, activism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Free Science, free speech, government, Great Barrington Declaration, ideology, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, misinformation, National Institutes of Health, Politics, protests, research funding, scientism, scientocracy, Stand Up for Science, Sunetra Gupta, universities Stand Up for Science or… for Naked Ideology? Wesley J. Smith March 12, 2025 Bioethics, Scientific Freedom 5 “Stand Up for Science 2025” protests were clearly aimed at reaffirming control by the now discredited science establishment. Read More ›
Male_scientist_with_microscope,_Tudor_Chambers,_Church_Square,_Pretoria Type post Date February 14, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , Ajit Varki, authors, COVID-19, editors, Food and Drug Administration, Great Barrington Declaration, Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, National Institutes of Health, Science (journal), Sunetra Gupta Who’s Afraid of This New Science Journal? Science and Culture February 14, 2025 Bioethics, Medicine 6 Skeptics worry that the new journal "will be used to sow doubt about scientific consensus." Read More ›
Anthony Fauci Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date May 23, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, Francis Collins, Great Barrington Declaration, Human Genome Project, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorff, media, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, National Review, pandemic, Sunetra Gupta, vaccination How the Public Health Establishment Squandered Our Trust Wesley J. Smith May 23, 2024 Bioethics, Medicine 5 The Covid pandemic was devastating, not only for society generally, but also to the reputations of our once-trusted health agencies. Read More ›
Trinity Detonation Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 16, 2023 CategoriesBioethicsPhysical SciencesScientific Freedom Tagged , Albert Einstein, Anthony Fauci, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cancel culture, climate change, Cold War, Francis Collins, gender-affirming care, Great Barrington Declaration, Hiroshima, Ireland, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorff, movies, Nagasaki, National Institutes of Health, Soviet Union, Sunetra Gupta, United States For Science and Free Speech, Lessons from Oppenheimer Wesley J. Smith August 16, 2023 Bioethics, Physical Sciences, Scientific Freedom 6 Like all great art, the movie evokes reactions in the viewer beyond what the filmmaker might have intended. Read More ›
Anthony Fauci Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date March 15, 2023 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , AIDS, Anthony Fauci, children, COVID-19, epidemiology, Francis Collins, George W. Bush, Great Barrington Declaration, Harvard University, Jay Bhattacharya, lab leak, Martin Kulldorff, Nature Medicine, NIH, Oxford University, pandemic, public health, public policy, schools, Sunetra Gupta, Washington Post, Wired Fauci and Collins Owe the Country an Apology Wesley J. Smith March 15, 2023 Bioethics, Medicine 6 The harm done unnecessarily to children — their lost time in school, not to mention missed socialization — is a blow from which many will never recover. Read More ›