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Nina Shea on the Persecution of the Catholic Church in China

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December 2, 2024}

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November 11, 2024}

Daniel Carcillo on Psychedelics as a Treatment for Depression and Traumatic Brain Injury

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November 11, 2024}

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November 7, 2024
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“Nature” Editorial Attacks Trump Because He Ignored “Scientific Consensus”

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November 7, 2024
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The idea that "science" and the supposed "scientific consensus" — which too often is really political consensus within the science establishment — are synonymous is causing tremendous harm to the scientific sector. But the science establishment keeps forging widespread public distrust by doubling down on the politics. Read More ›

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November 5, 2024
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Rita Marker, the Great Anti-Assisted Suicide Champion, Has Died at 83

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November 5, 2024
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The great anti-euthanasia warrior, Rita Marker, has died at 83 after a long illness. Rita was in Europe in the mid 1980s and, out of curiosity, attended an international right-to-die convention. She was so alarmed by what she heard, she and her late husband and soulmate Mike Marker, formed the nonprofit International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force (later renamed the Patients Rights Council). Read More ›

Mt Vinson, Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica

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October 30, 2024
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Fighting for the Rights of . . . Antarctica?

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October 30, 2024
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Scientist holding a lab mouse, evaluating her condition prior to running some tests and inoculation the animal with a virus

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October 23, 2024
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We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals”

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October 23, 2024
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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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October 21, 2024
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New Yorker Editor: (Right-Wing) Political Violence Should Be Considered a “Public Health Threat”

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October 21, 2024
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Elephant lawyer in a courtroom an imposing figure in a tailored suit presenting a case

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October 15, 2024
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Will Colorado Allow Elephants to Sue?

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October 15, 2024
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Animal-rights activists never quit. The Nonhuman Rights Project, having lost cases seeking writs of habeas corpus for chimpanzees and an elephant named "Happy" in New York, has now brought a case in Colorado. It was properly tossed out of court at the trial-court level. Read More ›

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October 14, 2024}

Timothy S. Goeglein on the Dangers of Utopianism

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October 14, 2024}

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October 9, 2024
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Jack Phillips Wins the “Cake-Baking” Case…But Not on the Merits

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October 9, 2024
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