Human Exceptionalism | Page 8 | Discovery Institute

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July 6, 2021
Economics, Human Exceptionalism}

A Tale of Two Cities

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July 6, 2021
Economics, Human Exceptionalism}

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 ›

People raising fist with unfocused background in a pacifist protest against racism demanding justice

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June 24, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

The Perils of Declaring Racism a ‘Public Health Emergency’

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June 24, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

With COVID-19 apparently on the wane, the technocrats who eagerly seized upon the pandemic to justify hobbling American liberty now advocate declaring racism a “public health emergency.” Read More ›

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June 10, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Next Memorial Day, Remember the Atomic Veterans Who Died for Their Country

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June 10, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

I dread Memorial Day. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I don’t honor our military heroes who died for their country. To the contrary, I hold them in the highest esteem. It’s just that I hate having to stifle the rage I experience every year as that important commemoration day rolls around. Read More ›

Liquid Nitrogen bank containing suspension of stem cells. Cell culture for the biomedical diagnostic

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June 4, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Scientists Kill Embryo Research Time Restrictions

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June 4, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

It was all such a con. During the Great Embryonic Stem Cell Debate, “the scientists” promised to restrict embryo-destructive research to 14 days. They said that was because the neural system begins to form after 14 days. Read More ›

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May 26, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

AMA Helps Normalize Organ Harvesting after Euthanasia

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May 26, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Organ harvesting after euthanasia has become so normalized within the medical intellegentsia, that an American Medical Association publication, JAMA Surgery, had a letter debate — not about the propriety of killing and harvesting, but about whether the kill should begin at home or in a hospital. Read More ›

Operating oil and gas well profiled on sunset sky

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May 23, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

The IEA’s Plan to Destroy Freedom and Save the Planet

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May 23, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

If you liked gas lines after the Colonial Pipeline was shut down by a hacking—or if the rolling blackouts last summer in California were your idea of fun—you will love what the international global warming warriors at the International Energy Agency have planned for us. Read More ›

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May 18, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

The Attack on Religious Liberty is an Attack on All Our Freedoms

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May 18, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

More than two hundred years ago, the Founding Fathers changed the world by imbedding the fundamental human right to religious freedom in the Constitution. That right now hangs by a thread. Read More ›

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

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May 10, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Stealing Vaccine Patents Would Be a Big Mistake

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May 10, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Patent protection is crucial to the free-market system and essential to continuing medical innovation. Whatever immediate benefit might be derived by stealing the vaccine would ultimately be more than offset by the new drugs never brought to market and vaccines not invented. Read More ›

Blue sky and clouds over Henderson Creek, which runs through Rookery Bay in Marco Island

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April 30, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Florida Creeks — Yes, the Bodies of Water — Sue to Enforce ‘Nature Rights’

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April 30, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

The “nature rights” movement is stunningly anti-human. It not only removes the concept of “rights” from the strictly human realm — us, our juridical entities and associations, etc. — but was created to thwart human enterprise. Read More ›

Embryos frozen in liquid nitrogen for IVF procedure close up

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April 16, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

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April 16, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Read More ›