Tag: The New England Journal of Medicine

medicine, healthcare and people concept - doctor talking to male patient at medical office in hospital

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 20, 2026

Categories
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, American Society of Reproductive Medicine, baby, California, celibate individuals, health care, infertility, intercourse, life choices, medical terminology, medicine, pathology, policy, pregnancy, reproductive technologies, same-sex relations, The New England Journal of Medicine, wokeness, World Health Organization}

Top Journal Would Redefine Medical Condition to Suit Political Goals

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 20, 2026

Medicine, Technology

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The authors support a sociological definition of “infertility” propounded by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine. Read More ›

Doctor carrying a cooler box for organ transport doctor ensures swift and safe organ transport using specialized cooler box, optimizing life-saving medical procedures

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 17, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Australia, Belgium, bioethics, brain cancer, Canada, cause of death, coma, dead donor rule, euthanasia, Hippocratic Oath, homicide, medical ethics, mentally ill, natural resources, Netherlands, New Zealand, npr, organ donation, organ-harvesting, patients, recontextualization, Robert D. Truog, Spain, suffering, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Ghoulish Proposal: Killing for Organs Gets a Prestige Endorsement

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 17, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

Transforming sick and disabled people into a killable caste objectifies them as potential natural resources to be mined or harvested. Read More ›

Drunk homeless man covered his face with his hands and sits on the stairs in the underpass, black and white photo.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Executive Order, feces, harm reduction, HIV, human dignity, medicine, mental illness, overdose, personal autonomy, San Francisco, The New England Journal of Medicine, Trump Administration}

“Harm Reduction” Harms the Homeless

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

San Francisco was allowing harm reducers to give away “starter kits” to people so they could begin injecting drugs! Read More ›

AI-generated illustration of a human fetus curled up in the womb

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, bioethics, doctors, drug addiction, embryology, fetus, miscarriages, pregnancy, racists, slavery, The New England Journal of Medicine, unborn children, United States, Vermont}

Medical Journal Screed Decries All Fetal Personhood Laws

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

The authors imply that laws that protect unborn children are racist. But pro-lifers want more black babies born and protected from harm, not fewer. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, adults, assisted suicide, bioethics, Canada, Daily Mail, disabled, euthanasia, Groningen protocol, infanticide, infants, killing, Netherlands, Peter Singer, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Netherlands Already Allows Infanticide, So Why Not Canada?

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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In a more righteous world, allowing infanticide would make the Netherlands a pariah nation, but we have become morally stunted in the West. 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
May 2, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cognition, consciousness, decisions, Denyse O'Leary, Global Workspace Theory, Integrated information theory, Michael Egnor, Nautilus, neuroscience, neuroscientists, prefrontal cortex, pseudoscience, Science Daily, The Immortal Mind, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Sussex}

Study Probes the Origins of Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 2, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Understanding consciousness by these means is going to be a much slower process than the researchers had hoped. Read More ›

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Date
April 7, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, epidemiologists, Francis Collins, free speech, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, National Institutes of Health, Newsweek, Scott Atlas, The Free Press, The New England Journal of Medicine, Washington Post, Wesley J. Smith}

At NIH, Bhattacharya Wants to Restore Open Inquiry

_{Science & Culture
April 7, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Scientific Freedom

5}

Restoring open discussion is certainly worth a try. Science advances more from doubt than from certainty. 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

5}

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
March 2, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, “consensus science”, adult stem cells, anti-science, blood, bone marrow, cancer, chemotherapy, diseases, embryonic stem cells, HIV, media, mutations, Politicians, settled science, stem cells, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Adult Stem-Cell Cure for HIV?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 2, 2024

Life Sciences, Medicine

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A “consensus science” that seeks to stifle open scientific inquiry and heterodox advocacy harms the scientific quest for truth. Read More ›