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July 29, 2024
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No, Putin Should Not Be Charged With the ‘Crime’ of ‘Ecocide’

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July 29, 2024
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Vladimir Putin is a war criminal of the worst order for his atrocities against Ukraine. He is responsible for human carnage, the deaths and terrible woundings of hundreds of thousands of people — from soldiers to civilians and even children killed in hospitals where they were receiving medical treatment. But . . . should he ever be called to so face the music, he should not be charged with "ecocide." Read More ›

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July 25, 2024
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Science Journal Swoons Over Kamala

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July 25, 2024
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These days, scientific and medical journals are seemingly as much ideological — on the left — as scientific. Nature — perhaps the preeminent science journal in the world — has posted a piece swooning over Vice President Kamala Harris as a "historic" presumptive presidential nominee stirring "optimism" among scientists. Why? Read More ›

Young beautiful teacher woman wearing sweater and glasses sitting on desk at kindergarten asking to be quiet with finger on lips. Silence and secret concept.

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July 18, 2024
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New California Law Prohibits Schools from Telling Parents Their Child Is Trans

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July 18, 2024
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Political progressives apparently think that school administrators and teachers should have a greater say than parents in the raising and treatment of children experiencing gender dysphoria. How else to explain Governor Gavin Newsom's signing A.B. 1955, an authoritarian law that forces schools to leave parents in the dark if their child identifies as the opposite sex or presents other issues around sexual identity and orientation. Read More ›

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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 ›

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^{Wesley J. Smith
July 12, 2024
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Canadian Death Doctor Has Euthanized Hundreds of Patients

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July 12, 2024
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Legalizing euthanasia corrupts everything — the ethics of medicine, the public's perception of people experiencing illness, disability, or elder frailty, the media that continually swoon over medics who kill. This latter phenomenon is on vivid display in a National Post story. Read More ›

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July 11, 2024
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Universities Should Promote Rigorous Discourse, Not Stifle It

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July 11, 2024
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The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an advocacy article that attacks academic freedom and urges stifling contentious campus debates. Specifically, Evan Mullen, Eric J. Topol, and Abraham Verghese urge universities to "speak out publicly" and issue official institutional opinions about public controversies involving its professors "when it concludes that a faculty member's opinion could cause public harm." Read More ›

Old people in geriatric hospice: elderly lady having eyesight problems viewing the screen of mobile phone. A nurse helps the senior woman dialing a number on the tiny keyboard

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June 26, 2024
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Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association Plans to Surrender to Assisted-Suicide Agenda

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June 26, 2024
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When Dame Cecily Saunders created the modern hospice movement, she adamantly rejected assisted suicide as an acceptable hospice activity. Saunders would be spinning in her grave if she read the proposed policy around assisted suicide that has been published by the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA). Read More ›

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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 18, 2024
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Bill Would Require Federal Funds to Pay for Assisted Suicide

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June 18, 2024
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The use of federal funds to cover any costs associated with assisted suicide is currently against the law based on a bill signed in 1997 by President Bill Clinton after Oregon's lethal law went into effect. Now, a new bill has been introduced to force Medicare, the VA, and the federal share of Medicaid to cover expenses associated with assisted suicide. 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 ›