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Psilocybin Psilocybe Cubensis mushrooms in a plastic bag on brown soft background. Psychedelic magic mushroom Golden Teacher. Top view, flat lay. Micro-dosing concept.

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October 2, 2024
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Bioethicists Push Psychedelics to Make Life “Interesting”

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October 2, 2024
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We live in a hedonistic age in which pleasures — including of the most intense kind — are readily available. Yet, despite the supposed good times, we are increasingly anxious and depressed, to the point that addiction and suicide are considered symptoms of a profound mental health crisis. Read More ›

Young scientist looking through a microscope in a laboratory. Young scientist doing some research.

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October 2, 2024
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Scandal! “Science” Busts Allegedly Bogus Neurological Science

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October 2, 2024
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September 16, 2024}

Sam Brownback on the Connection Between Religious Freedom and Human Rights

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September 16, 2024}

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August 7, 2024
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‘Plant Philosophy’ Denigrates Human Uniqueness

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August 7, 2024
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Lately, as scientists unlock the complexity of plant biology, we are witnessing equivalent advocacy with regard to plants. The latest example of such radical anthropomorphizing comes to us in a long article just published in Aeon that discusses "plant philosophy." Read More ›

a pile of carrots sitting on top of a wooden table next to a sliced up carrot

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July 16, 2024
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President Biden Is Not a Yam

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July 16, 2024
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There has been a lot of discussion about President Biden's declining cognitive abilities. That's certainly fair game and an important — nay, a crucial — election issue. But some have gone more than a step too far by using the odious V-word slur. Read More ›

Silhouettes of crude oil pumps at sunset

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June 24, 2024
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Medical Journal Editorial Urges Lawfare Against Oil Companies

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June 24, 2024
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A Perspectives editorial penned by law professors in the New England Journal of Medicine enters the fray again, this time, advocating lawfare by governments against fossil fuel industries. The authors take heart from a legal settlement between a Louisiana parish and oil companies. But this case is not the same thing at all as paying damages for climate change. Read More ›

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June 17, 2024}

Steven J. Buri on the Pro-Human Mission of the Discovery Institute

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June 17, 2024}

For the last Humanize episode of the season, I thought it would be edifying to explore how the Discovery Institute's institutional programs dovetail with the work of the Center on Human Exceptionalism. Who better to ask than our intrepid president, Steven J. Buri? Read More ›

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June 3, 2024
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‘Tobacco-Free Generation’ Establishes Age-Based Ban on Sale of Tobacco — to Adults

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June 3, 2024
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I don't smoke, but I am wary of efforts to prevent other people from so doing. Now, blue cities — and soon states, most likely — have hit upon a way to ban smoking known as "Tobacco Free Generation" (TFG). Read More ›

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May 24, 2024
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Too Many Climate Scientists Confuse ‘Science’ with Activism

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May 24, 2024
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Remember when a scientist admitted to removing nuance from a climate-change study because he believed that Nature would not publish it if he did not strictly follow the favored narrative of human-caused climate catastrophe? And now — perhaps in a reaction to that piece — Nature has published a cogent warning that too many scientists in the climate-change sector conflate "climate science" with "climate activism." Read More ›

Surgery, medical and a team of doctors in an operating room at the hospital for a medical procedure from patient pov. Face, mask and teamwork with a group of medicine professionals in an operation.

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May 15, 2024
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No, Doctors Shouldn’t Make Treatment Decisions for Incompetent Patients

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May 15, 2024
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Cardiologist and New York Times columnist Sandeep Jauhar has published a piece advocating that doctors and bioethicists be empowered to force treatment on some patients. He writes in the context of wanting to compel hospitalization on a schizophrenic patient with serious heart problems. From "Doctors Need a Better Way to Treat Patients Without Their Consent:" Read More ›