Dawkins and Other Evolutionary Biologists May Be Learning a Hard Lesson

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Dawkins and others believe that Facebook’s ban hammer fell on his questions about Imane Khalif competing in the women’s division boxing at the 2024 Olympics. Source
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Weikart: The Dark History of Medicalized Killing

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"Richard Weikart’s superb new book is a vitally important reply to the organized disposal of unwanted people." Source
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How “Medical Aid in Dying” Became the Euphemism of Choice for Assisted Suicide

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When radical policies are proposed, the first step is to change the lexicon to make it seem less extreme, even mundane. Source
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Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs

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A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least. Source
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Clues About Consciousness from Dementia Research

Andrew Peterson, brain, Cait Kearney, Canada, consciousness, deeply forgetful, dementia, Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People, euthanasia, lucidity, Medicine, memory, neurobiology, neurodegenerative diseases, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, paradoxical lucidity, Parnia Lab, Penn Memory Center, Stephen Post, Stony Brook University
The phenomenon is called "paradoxical lucidity" because it is unexpected and we know very little about its causes. Source
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