bioethics

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^{Wesley J. Smith
December 5, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Only Bioethicists Can Prevent Global Warming

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 5, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

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^{Wesley J. Smith
October 23, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals”

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 23, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Bioethics is a utilitarianish social-political movement whose primary advocates are usually philosophers, lawyers, and/or doctors. Mainstream bioethicists (unless they have a modifier in front of the identifier, such as “Catholic”) generally push against human exceptionalism — a concept many view as “speciesism” — and promote Tower of Babel–like experiments that push us toward an almost-anything-goes research ethic. Read More ›

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^{Wesley J. Smith
August 12, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Blessed Are the Peacemakers, for They Shall Be Called Bioethicists

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 12, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Reinforcing my earlier point, the Hastings Center has now published an utterly naive article advocating that war itself be transformed into a bioethics issue. True to form in the field, the authors propose six bioethical "principles" to apply to considering whether potential combatants should resort to war or make "wiser choices." Read More ›

Medical Science Laboratory with Team of Microbiology Scientists Have Meeting

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 29, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 29, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

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 ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 13, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

A Market in Human Kidneys Is a Bad Idea

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 13, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

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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^{Wesley J. Smith
January 10, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Bioethicist Pushes Human Extinction in Prestigious Journal

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 10, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

The fear of suffering (or deprivation of personal desires) is causing untold moral harm in the West — from ever-expanding euthanasia laws to the march of increasingly radical reproductive technologies, to transitioning children with gender dysphoria with harmful puberty blockers and mastectomies on teenage girls, to transhumanistic advocacy that threatens to unleash new eugenics, etc. Read More ›

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^{Michael Egnor
June 1, 2023}

Alzheimer’s, Medical Ethics, and Choosing Life

_{Michael Egnor
June 1, 2023}

^{Wesley J. Smith
May 10, 2022}

Joseph Bottum on Cyber Ethics, Poetry, Culture, and Community

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 10, 2022}

In this episode of Humanize, Wesley has a wide-ranging a conversation with his close friend Joseph Bottum, one of our most well read and original thinkers. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
May 9, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

A Call for Medical Ethics | Wesley J Smith on The Dr. J Show

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 9, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

Wesley J. Smith is Chair and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. Wesley is a contributor to National Review and is the author of 14 books, in recent years focusing on human dignity, liberty, and equality. Read More ›

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April 14, 2022}

Wesley J. Smith Unpacks Nature Article about Alarming Gene Editing

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 14, 2022}

On today’s ID the Future, bioethicist Wesley J. Smith explores a recent article in the journal Nature, “The Alarming Rise of Complex Genetic Testing in Human Embryo Selection.” Read More ›