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This Is Science? Top Medical Journal Goes After…Capitalism

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 16, 2023}

Having strived to transform global warming into a planetary health emergency, it has now published a screed attacking “commercialism” for killing the planet.

Why Does the Proposal for Chimp–Human Hybrids Keep Coming Back?

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 12, 2023}

A few days ago, Templeton Foundation's mailer for its online magazine Nautilus pointed to a five-year-old article by University of Washington psychology prof (emeritus) David P. Barash, advocating the creation of a humanzee: “Doing so would be a terrific idea.”

Legalizing Euthanasia Poisons a Nation’s Soul

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 24, 2023}

Euthanasia isn't only bad medicine but also poisons the soul of nations that embrace killing as an answer to human suffering.

Company Names “Nature” to Board of Directors

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 11, 2023}

Look what a frivolous culture we are becoming, with the private sector increasingly fueling our intellectual and moral decline.

UN Bureaucrat: Destroy Science to Save Us From ‘Global Boiling’

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 7, 2023}

“Don’t listen to what they say, watch what they do,” is often good advice. But sometimes what they “say” is precisely what they plan to do. Case in point: A United Nations official named Volker Türk just published a column in Nature—the world’s most prestigious scientific journal—in which he proposes to “protect the right to science” to combat “climate change.”

To Throttle Human Thriving Is the Point of “Nature Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 4, 2023}

Granting “rights” to nature — including geological features — profoundly undermines the concept of “rights” itself.

Woke Watch: The Ideological Transformation of Medical Journals

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 2, 2023}

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

Euthanasia for Autism, Intellectual Disabilities in the Netherlands

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 1, 2023}

“Helping people with autism and intellectual disabilities to die is essentially eugenics.”

How “Medical Aid in Dying” Became the Euphemism of Choice for Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 28, 2023}

When radical policies are proposed, the first step is to change the lexicon to make it seem less extreme, even mundane.

Medical Aid in Dying: Euphemism of Choice for Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 24, 2023}

The word engineering never stops, does it? When radical policies are proposed, the first step is to change the lexicon to make it seem less extreme, even mundane.

Animal-Rights Philosopher, Published by Oxford University Press: “Let Animals Vote!”

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 22, 2023}

If you want to see what is going so badly wrong in society, read the professional and intellectual journals.

No to Killing for Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 21, 2023}

The shortage of organs for transplantation is threatening to unleash immoral and unethical remedies.

American College of Clinical Pharmacy Runs Away from Open Scientific Discourse

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 17, 2023}

The scientific method and the crafting of public policy requires open scientific discourse. But these days, that is in increasingly short supply. The science establishment is more dedicated to stifling those who dissent from policy orthodoxies.

Animal-Rights Philosopher: Let Animals Vote!

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 15, 2023}

The radicalism never stops. A post published by Oxford University Press — not a fringe publisher! — has advocated giving voting rights to animals.

Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 15, 2023}

A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least.

Saving Humans Is More Important Than Saving Pigs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 13, 2023}

The chronic shortage of organs for transplantation has some bioethicists supporting unethical curatives, such as doing away with the dead-donor rule, allowing organ procurement to be not only paired with euthanasia — already being done in Canada, Belgium, and the Netherlands — but also used as a means of euthanasia, and even allowing healthy people to consent to donating their vital organs.

‘Ocean Rights’ Earth Religion Advances in the UN

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 5, 2023}

The “international world order” is increasingly radical in its environmental engagement and anti-human in the policies it promotes. In the great cause of “saving the planet,” scientific precepts and empirical analyses are being cast aside in favor of a neo-earth religious mysticism.

As Trust in Science Sinks, Prestigious Journal Decides to Showcase Yet Another Politicized Scientist

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 2, 2023}

The world’s most prestigious science journal just published an ex-astronomer's remarkable screed.

The American Anthropological Association Is Shamefully Anti-Scientific

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 30, 2023}

Here we go again: A supposedly scientific organization crushes the scientific method in the cause of radical ideology.

The Canadian Culture of Death Brooks No Dissent

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 29, 2023}

Mere legalization of euthanasia is never enough. Eventually, efforts will be made to compel dissenting doctors and institutions to become complicit in the killing of sick patients — even if it violates constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion.