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February 8, 2021
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How Much More Should We Pay for Costco’s Chickens?

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February 8, 2021
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New York Times columnist Nick Kristof wrote one of his periodic columns decrying industrial methods of animal husbandry. This time, he focused on chickens and the raising methods that permit Costco to sell a whole rotisserie chicken for only $4.99. Read More ›

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January 18, 2021
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Washington Bill to Let Non-Doctors Participate in Assisted Suicide

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January 18, 2021
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When selling the legalization of assisted suicide, activists always promise that strict guidelines will protect against abuse. Read More ›

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December 31, 2020
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The Euthanasia Cancer Spreads

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December 31, 2020
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The West is tearing itself apart. The symptoms are evident in our bitterly divided politics and the attempts to punish those with heterodox views. Read More ›

Amazon Rainforest in Anavilhanas National Park, Amazonas - Brazil

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December 1, 2020
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Missouri Bill to Ban ‘Rights of Nature’

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December 1, 2020
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Good. A bill has been filed in Missouri to ban granting legal rights or court standing to any non-human aspect of nature. Read More ›

Selection of traditional thanksgiving food - turkey, mashed patatoes, green beans, apple pie on rustic background

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November 22, 2020
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This Thanksgiving Is Time for a ‘Great National COVID Repentance’

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November 22, 2020
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The CDC has requested that we stay home for Thanksgiving. That’s a bitter pill. But to the CDC’s credit, it did not attempt to impose a legally enforceable travel ban. Rather, the agency treated Americans as adults capable of making appropriate decisions. Read More ›

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November 10, 2020
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Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine Not Created with Fetal Cells

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November 10, 2020
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The news that Pfizer’s vaccine is 90 percent effective has rocked the world. The company will be applying for an emergency FDA approval. Read More ›

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October 29, 2020
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Will Scientists Create a Conscious Human Brain in a Dish?

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October 29, 2020
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As society roils with COVID and the election, the biotechnological revolution rushes forward with scientists bound by few enforceable ethical boundaries. Read More ›

Handcuffed doctor. Medical crime concept, closeup

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October 14, 2020
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Ideology in Science is Destroying Trust

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October 14, 2020
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Science should never be tainted by ideology. After all, science isn’t supposed to be about political beliefs but is a powerful method for learning about and understanding the physical universe. Read More ›

desperate man in silhouette sitting on the bed with hands on head

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October 1, 2020
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Autonomy or Abandoning the Mentally Ill?

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October 1, 2020
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A U.K. woman with anorexia is in danger of starving to death and courts there will not allow force-feeding to save her life because she has decision-making capacity. Read More ›

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September 17, 2020
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Assisted Suicide is Never a Treatment for Mental Illness

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September 17, 2020
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Addressing the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith said that activists and pressure groups often use fear, in particular fear-mongering on the difficulties of death, to push through their agenda. Read More ›