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November 18, 2024
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The Case for Human Exceptionalism

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November 18, 2024
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Only humans have duties — to treat each other respectfully and protect the vulnerable, to husband animals humanely, and to make responsible use of the environment. In other words, humans understand right from wrong and have a duty to act accordingly. Four books helped me develop this understanding. Read More ›

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November 13, 2024
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Wesley J. Smith Appears on American Thought Leaders to Discuss the Assisted Suicide Movement

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November 13, 2024
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Wesley J. Smith was on EpochTV’s American Thought Leaders this week in an episode dedicated to exploring the history and dangers of the assisted suicide movement. From EpochTV: “When a country or a state legalizes assisted suicide or euthanasia, it can no longer call itself anti-suicide, because it specifically approves some suicides. … It’s a very dangerous movement that is …

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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 7, 2024
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West Virginia Voters Enact Constitutional Amendment Banning Assisted Suicide

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November 7, 2024
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There will be a lot of political news in the next week. But I don't want it missed that apparently West Virginia voters narrowly passed a constitutional amendment banning assisted suicide. This is the first time that the so-called right to die movement has been proactively pushed back — as opposed to successfully defending against that policy’s spread. Read More ›

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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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October 29, 2024
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Medical Journal Trots Out Trite “The Handmaid’s Tale” Metaphor to Oppose Natalism

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October 29, 2024
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Cratering birth rates are threatening a “demographic winter,” according to a recent Wall Street Journal story, causing government leaders to believe that increasing the number of babies born has become “a matter of national urgency.” Read More ›

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October 25, 2024
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Canada’s Euthanasia Horrors Are Accelerating

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October 25, 2024
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The horrors unleashed by Canada’s legalizing euthanasia are growing increasingly clear. Case after case of vulnerable people being killed instead of cared for have now been reported. More than 15,000 Canadians are euthanized annually. Some are even asking to die because they can’t access proper care in Canada’s socialized system, or out of loneliness as much as illness. Read More ›

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 ›