bioethics

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 27, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Stop ‘Outsourcing’ Unethical Science to Other Countries

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 27, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

It is long past time for an ethical house cleaning. Overseas breaches of moral propriety by U.S.-funded researchers, domestic companies, and American scientists make us all complicit in wrongdoing. It doesn’t have to be that way. 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.

^{John G. West
September 29, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Francis Collins’ Rhetoric About the Unvaccinated is Anything but Christian

_{John G. West
September 29, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

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 ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

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 ›

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

^{Wesley J. Smith
June 4, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Scientists Kill Embryo Research Time Restrictions

_{Wesley J. Smith
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 ›

Embryos frozen in liquid nitrogen for IVF procedure close up

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 16, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

_{Wesley J. Smith
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 ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 29, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Human Exceptionalism}

Will Scientists Create a Conscious Human Brain in a Dish?

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 29, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Human Exceptionalism}

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

Older woman lying in hospital bed alone looking at the Christian crucifix asking for her healing.

^{Wesley J. Smith
June 11, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Peter Singer Endorses Medical Discrimination Against Elderly in COVID Crisis

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 11, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

In vitro fertilisation, IVF macro concept — Photo by Dmytro S on Adobe Stock

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 11, 2018
Human Exceptionalism}

Oversight Needed

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 11, 2018
Human Exceptionalism}

Somewhere in the Great Beyond, Aldous Huxley must have been shaking his head and saying “I told you so” after Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced the birth of twin girls whose genes he claimed to have edited. If true, these are the first genetically engineered human babies. After creating the embryos via in vitro fertilization, He — known in the Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 16, 2016
Human Exceptionalism}

Bioethics in the Age of Trump

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 16, 2016
Human Exceptionalism}

Ever since his unexpected victory, the media have been obsessing over what a Donald Trump presidency will mean for a range of important issues, such as the Paris Agreement on climate change, border enforcement, the judiciary, and Obamacare repeal. But one set of crucial concerns — those that go under the general category of bioethics/biotechnology — has received woefully short Read More ›

^{Discovery Institute
October 17, 2016
Discovery Institute, Human Exceptionalism}

First Child Dies Under Belgium’s Euthanasia Law

_{Discovery Institute
October 17, 2016
Discovery Institute, Human Exceptionalism}

Writing at First Things, Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith discusses the alarming first case of child euthanasia in Belgium. Belgium is the only country to have legalized physician-assisted suicide for children of any age. Read more from Wesley J. Smith at First Things.