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October 20, 2021
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The Rights of Nature: Saving the Planet or Harmful to Humanity?

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October 20, 2021
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Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith participated in a debate hosted by Gonzaga University with a leading proponent of the nature rights movement, Thomas Linzey. Read More ›

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October 9, 2021
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A Mandate Martyr

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October 9, 2021
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The more I observe the establishment’s moral panic over COVID vaccines, the greater my belief that mandates are less about establishing beneficial public health policy and more about enabling an emerging technocracy to assume authoritarian control. Read More ›

Francis Collins at the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health Laboratory — President Joe Biden tours the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health Laboratory Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in Bethesda, Maryland. From left, Deputy Director of the NIH NIAAID Vaccine Research Center Dr. Barney Graham, Chief Medical Adviser to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, and Senior Research Fellow and Coronavirus Team Lead at the NIAIC Vaccine Research Center Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett.

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September 29, 2021
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Francis Collins’ Rhetoric About the Unvaccinated is Anything but Christian

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September 29, 2021
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Francis Collins is Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He also is the most well-known evangelical Christian in the federal science establishment. But his recent rhetoric is anything but Christian. Read More ›

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September 16, 2021
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UN Power Grab

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September 16, 2021
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Unless we stand strong defending national sovereignty and individual liberty—values that “the international community” scorns and which Guterres barely mentions—we could really end up in the collectivist soup. Read More ›

vial, covid-19, coronavirus vaccine ampoule, bottle for injection with syringe

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August 31, 2021
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Questioning Vaccine Mandates

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August 31, 2021
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If a free society is to remain worthy of the name, persuasion—not coercion—must be the watchword. Because if COVID becomes the excuse for government and Big Business to exert such extreme control, even greater intrusions on civil liberties will surely follow. Once power is grabbed, the grabbers rarely let go. Read More ›

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August 21, 2021
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Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs

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August 21, 2021
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We have entered the era of what I call “do harm medicine,” in which the concept of what constitutes harming the patient has become entirely malleable and subjective. I even wrote a book covering that subject. Read More ›

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August 2, 2021
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Brit Baby’s Death Ruled Better Than Small Chance of Living — Again

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August 2, 2021
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Readers may recall the Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans cases from the U.K. — in which doctors both wanted to remove life support and prevent the children from being transferred to other hospitals willing to continue care. Because the law in the U.K. permits courts to decide the “best interests” of children in medical extremis, the MDs got their way. Read More ›

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July 27, 2021
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At Last! Establishment Pushback Against Puberty Blocking

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July 27, 2021
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Opponents of puberty blocking can no longer be denigrated as supposed religious fanatics or transphobic haters. Hopefully, the ultimate beneficiaries of this sea change will be the children whose bodies will not now become fodder in the well-meaning but ultimately destructive name of “gender affirmation.” Read More ›

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July 17, 2021
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Medical Journal: Train Medical Students to Be Woke Social Activists

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July 17, 2021
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There the New England Journal of Medicine goes pushing woke agendas again. This time, the extremely politically progressive medical journal has published an article urging that medical students be taught that left-wing social-justice engagement should be among their professional duties. Read More ›

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July 6, 2021
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A Tale of Two Cities

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July 6, 2021
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We hear much about individual “rights” these days, but very little about personal responsibilities. That’s untenable. Our freedom to exercise the former cannot long exist without accepting our duty to fulfill the latter. Read More ›