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^{Wesley J. Smith
August 29, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

The Problem with Shifting from ‘Evidence-Based’ to ‘Science-Based’ Medicine

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 29, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

We supposedly live in an era of “evidence-based medicine,” in which medical decisions are guided by the published data. But that approach is now being criticized because the “best evidence” is often in the eye of the beholder. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 27, 2010
Human Exceptionalism}

End-of-Life Decisions and the Bureaucracy

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 27, 2010
Human Exceptionalism}

When I learned today that the federal bureaucracy had promulgated a rule compensating physicians for the time they spend counseling patients on end-of-life health-care decisions, I wasn’t surprised. A similar provision was dropped from the Obamacare bill, but anyone who understands the profoundly bureaucratic nature of contemporary government knew that that was not necessarily the end of it. The 2,700-page Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
September 21, 2009
Human Exceptionalism}

A Myth Is as Good as a Mile

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 21, 2009
Human Exceptionalism}

The assisted-suicide movement has come a long way in just a couple of decades. Consider, for example, this recent item from the San Francisco Chronicle: “Charlotte Shultz [the wife of former secretary of state George Shultz] accepted the invitation to be honorary co- chair (with Dianne Feinstein) at a Nov. 5 luncheon and program for Compassion & Choices of Northern Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
May 19, 2003
Intelligent Design}

GOP Can Achieve Health Care Reform by Keeping it Simple

_{Stephen C. Meyer
May 19, 2003
Intelligent Design}

Republicans wondering what to do after they have exhausted the ideas in their “Contract with America” might take a page out of Bill Clinton’s playbook and look again at health care reform. Of course, reviving Mr. Clinton’s confusing and heavily bureaucratic approach to health care would be politically suicidal. Fortunately, neither Republicans, nor market-oriented Democrats, need take that tack. An Read More ›