Human Exceptionalism

Center on Human Exceptionalism
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Wesley J. Smith
March 17, 2025
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Microbes Over People?

Wesley J. Smith
March 17, 2025
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Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. But NYU bioethicist Jeff Sebo delivers precisely that thesis in his new book The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why (W.W. Norton, 192 pp.). Don’t look for a sanctity of human life argument here. Rather, Sebo takes readers on a step-by-step simplified course in moral philosophy. Read More ›
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Center on Human Exceptionalism and Wesley J. Smith
March 13, 2025
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Wesley J. Smith Talks Human Exceptionalism on Family First New Zealand

Center on Human Exceptionalism and Wesley J. Smith
March 13, 2025
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Wesley J. Smith joined host Simon O’Connor on Family Matters, a show from Family First New Zealand, to discuss human exceptionalism. Together, they discuss what makes humans different from animals, the problem with mainstream bioethics today, why euthanasia is wrong, and more!

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two macaques in close proximity to each other against a background of green vegetation, AI, wild nature monkeys
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Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2025
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PETA Sues NIH for Violating Its “First Amendment Right” to Talk to Monkeys

Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2025
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PETA is suing the NIH and the National Institute of Mental Health, claiming that the agency's refusal to allow them to receive closed-circuit monitoring of research monkeys and communicate directly with them violates the animal rights fanatics' First and Fifth Amendment rights. The irrationality begins in the complaint's first and second paragraphs when the complaint alleges PETA has a right to receive communications from "fellow primates" that are "willing speakers." Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
March 10, 2025
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Stand Up for (Ideological) Science 2025 Day!

Wesley J. Smith
March 10, 2025
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Yesterday was “Stand Up for Science 2025” day, which featured rallies around the country to “defend science as a public good and pillar of social, political, and economic progress.” But that isn’t what it was really all about. Former NIH head Francis Collins spoke (and sang) at the D.C. rally, and he was the champion censor of heterodox views during Covid... Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
February 26, 2025
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Only Doctors Can Prevent Global Warming

Wesley J. Smith
February 26, 2025
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Science, medical, and bioethics journals are setting themselves up as the new political resistance to Trump policies, most particularly around global warming controversies. JAMA has just published a column decrying Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord and claiming that preventing climate change is now up to doctors. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
February 24, 2025
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Swiss Canton Liberates Suicide Tourism from Police Investigation

Wesley J. Smith
February 24, 2025
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Switzerland is the world's suicide tourism capital. Indeed, for the price of transportation and about $11,000, you can be helped to make yourself dead at one of the country's notorious suicide clinics. It used to be that each such assisted suicide had to be at least cursorily investigated by the authorities. But now, that minimal protection has been gutted. Read More ›