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May 13, 2024
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Colorado Town Learns the Harm Caused by Granting Rights to Nature

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May 13, 2024
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The nature-rights movement isn't about conservation or responsible husbanding of the natural world. Rather, it seeks to handcuff human thriving by preventing most uses of our natural resources. But it sounds soooo nice, doesn't it? Well, the Colorado town of Nederland has learned the hard way that granting "rights" to waterways impedes all kinds of beneficial projects. Read More ›

Close-up of a petri dish in a lab setting containing a developing piece of lab-grown meat with a microscope in the background highlighting the cellular structure and the process of culturing meat

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May 10, 2024
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DeSantis Wrong to Criminalize Lab-Grown Meat

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May 10, 2024
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Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that makes the manufacture and sale of lab-grown meat (made from meat cells) in Florida a misdemeanor. I agree with DeSantis that our would-be woke overlords want to destroy animal agriculture internationally. But freedom is the solution to those threats, not neo-Luddism. Read More ›

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May 6, 2024
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Again with the ‘Plants Are Intelligent’ Nonsense

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May 6, 2024
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Periodically, the mainstream media focus on advocacy for the idea that plants are intelligent and/or moral beings. For example, the New York Times ran a column some years back asserting that peas are persons. Why? Pea plants release chemicals in the soil that alert other pea plants of drought conditions. Read More ›

Medical Science Laboratory with Team of Microbiology Scientists Have Meeting

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April 29, 2024
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Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!

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April 29, 2024
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Bioethics has always been about granting "experts" in the field tremendous influence over public policy. And now, one of the most prominent practitioners in the field — the president and CEO of the Hastings Center Report, a prestigious bioethics journal — has urged that bioethicists expand their "expert" advocacy to issues of "global" importance. Read More ›

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April 25, 2024
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The Biden Department of Education Seems to Hate Women and Girls

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April 25, 2024
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In a slap to the face to all American women and girls in schools and universities, the Department of Education dismantled many existing federal protections against actual sex discrimination promulgated under a civil rights law known as Title IX — which protects females against discrimination at public schools, colleges, and universities receiving federal funding — by unilaterally rewriting the law to apply to “gender,” which isn’t the same thing at all. Read More ›

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April 15, 2024
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Belgian Health-Fund President: Euthanize Old People to Save Money

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April 15, 2024
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Earlier this month, I noted that a U.K. columnist was pushing euthanasia for the elderly as a way of saving national resources. That call has now been echoed by a Belgian health-insurance official for one of the five mutual-fund companies that provide the country’s mandatory health- and disability-insurance policies. Read More ›

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April 13, 2024
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A Market in Human Kidneys Is a Bad Idea

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April 13, 2024
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It is sometimes said that desperate circumstances require desperate measures. But desperation can also lead to the exploitation of the vulnerable. Such would be the case if we created a market in live-donation human kidneys. Read More ›

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April 8, 2024
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What Comes after Transgender? Doctor Amputates Man’s Healthy Fingers

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April 8, 2024
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I have long predicted that normalizing transgender surgeries would be followed eventually by doctors intentionally disabling patients with Body Identity Integrity Disorder (BIID). Well, here it comes. A doctor in Quebec "treated" a BIID patient by amputating two of his healthy fingers. Read More ›

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April 5, 2024
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Study: Most Gender-Confused Children become Gender-Conforming Adults

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April 5, 2024
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A new study has found that almost all children who experience gender confusion grow out of it as they age into adulthood. By the time gender-non-contented children are adults, of the 21-22 percent experiencing gender distress, all but 2 percent grew out of it. Read More ›

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April 3, 2024
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Normalizing Assisted Suicide Will Lead to a Duty to Die

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April 3, 2024
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Euthanasia isn't really about compassion but fear of decline and a loathing of dependency — and of those experiencing them. That nasty truth has become abundantly clear with a new column published in the Times of London. Read More ›