bioethics

Hand of doctor reassuring her female patient. Medical ethics and trust concept

^{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 ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
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 ›

^{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 ›