26Mar 2025 by Post

On Science and Other Subjects, the “Experts” Have Blown Up Their Own Credibility

academia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Angel Eduardo, Canada, cancel culture, Conrad Black, conspiracy theory, COVID-19, credibility, distrust, free speech, Greg Lukianoff, lab leak theory, misinformation, Neuroscience & Mind, News Media, public, residential school denialism, Rikki Schlott, The Canceling of the American Mind
Long time free speech advocate Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo dissect the Cancel Culture that makes distrust a quite reasonable choice. Source
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13Aug 2024 by Post

Dawkins and Other Evolutionary Biologists May Be Learning a Hard Lesson

boxing, Canada, censorship, chromosomes, Culture & Ethics, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, Facebook, free speech, genetics, Georges Cazorla, Imane Khalif, International Olympic Committee, Jerry Coyne, misinformation, Moon, Olympiad, Olympics, religion, Richard Dawkins, science, Scientific American, sex binary, Sports, testosterone, The Last Supper, wokeness, women
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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09Aug 2024 by Post

Weikart: The Dark History of Medicalized Killing

California State University Stanislaus, Canada, Center on Human Exceptionalism, Culture & Ethics, culture of death, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, From Darwin to Hitler, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, Medicine, Netherlands, Richard Weikart, Stony Brook University, Switzerland, The Death of Humanity, United States, Unnatural Death, Wesley J. Smith
"Richard Weikart’s superb new book is a vitally important reply to the organized disposal of unwanted people." Source
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28Oct 2023 by Post

How “Medical Aid in Dying” Became the Euphemism of Choice for Assisted Suicide

A Concise History of Euthanasia, assisted suicide, Brandeis University, Canada, Culture & Ethics, doctors, euthanasia, hemlock, honey, Ian Dowbiggin, MAiD, medical aid in dying, medication, Medicine, mercy killing, New York Times, nurse practitioners, patients, poisons, Rachel E. Gross, suicide, University of Colorado
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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15Oct 2023 by Post

Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs

bacon, Belgium, BioEdge, bioethics, Canada, Cornell University, Culture & Ethics, Franklin G. Miller, human life, internal bleeding, kidneys, Lawrence Faucette, Medicine, Netherlands, organ transplant, organs, Peter Singer, pigs, porcine virus, surgery, The Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Tom Beauchamp, vascular disease
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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