13Nov 2025 by Post

“Harm Reduction” Harms the Homeless

bioethics, Debra J. Saunders, drug abuse, drug abusers, Executive Order, feces, harm reduction, harm causation, HIV, human dignity, Joshua Barocas, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Market Street, Medicine, mental illness, needle exchange, overdose, personal autonomy, playgrounds, public policies, safe injection sites, San Francisco, sidewalks, syringe-services programs, The New England Journal of Medicine, Trump Administration, Union Square
San Francisco was allowing harm reducers to give away “starter kits” to people so they could begin injecting drugs! Source
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27Oct 2025 by Post

Medical Journal Screed Decries All Fetal Personhood Laws

abortion, bioethics, black babies, demagoguery, doctors, Dorothy Roberts, drug addiction, ectopic pregnancy, embryology, fetal homicide, fetal personhood, fetus, Killing the Black Body, medical conditions, Medicine, miscarriages, pregnancy, Pro lifers, pro-life laws, racists, slaveholders, slavery, substance abusers, The New England Journal of Medicine, unborn children, United States, Vermont
The authors imply that laws that protect unborn children are racist. But pro-lifers want more black babies born and protected from harm, not fewer. Source
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24Oct 2025 by Post

For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy

Alzheimer’s disease, bioethics, blood pressure, C. Everett Koop, cognitive impairment, death, delay, dementia, drug interactions, Ebola, euthanasia, grandchildren, grandmother, health conditions, Medicine, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, old-age home, prevention, Quebec, Resolve to Save Lives, Science Alert, Tessa Koumoundouros, The Formula for Better Health, Tibi Puiu, Tom Frieden, urinary tract infection, vitamin B12, Wall Street Journal, ZME Science, __featured3
I use the term “delay” rather than “prevention” for a reason: It may be that the human brain will inevitably start to break down after a century or so. Source
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16Oct 2025 by Post

Discovery Institute-Funded Paper in Scientific Reports Applies an ID-Inspired Approach to Cancer

anticancer, antimicrobial, antioxidant, biochemistry, biochemists, Biola University, biomolecules, biosphere, cancer, curcumin, Darwin Devolves, Discovery Institute, diseases, drugs, flavonoids, humans, Intelligent Design, Karl Krueger, leaf extract, lutein, lycopene, Magnolia alba, Medicine, Michael Behe, nanoparticles, photocatalytic, polyphenols, red grapefruit, Research, Richard Gunasekera, Scientific Reports, side effects, tomato, Tree of Life
Humans have bioengineered many drugs to fight cancer. We’ve all seen this: Many cancer drugs may work but they often have devastating side effects. Source
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21Sep 2025 by Post

Will We Care For or Kill Dementia Patients?

advance directive, Alzheimer’s disease, antibiotics, bioethics, burden, dementia, dementia patients, doula, hospice, killing, Medicine, nursing, palliative care, patients, Suffering, suicide, Thaddeus Mason Pope
I understand that people are terrified of dementia. Believe me, I get it. My mother died of Alzheimer’s. But I can’t wrap my head around the fact that advocacy for killing/suicide as the answer to the difficulties caused by the condition is becoming ubiquitous. Noted bioethicist and lawyer Thaddeus Mason Pope has written an essay, to be published in an edited volume, on this very issue. It lists eleven ways people can “avoid late-stage dementia,” and almost all involve intentionally ending life. Remember when we were told that advance medical directives are the key to not receiving life-extending treatment one does not want? They are, but that’s not good enough for Pope, because it doesn’t guarantee death: This strategy is Read More › Source
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15Sep 2025 by Post

Two Peer-Reviewed Papers Apply Behe’s “Darwin Devolves” Thesis to Cancer 

Ann Gauger, BRAF, cancer, cancer genomics, cell growth, cell types, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian processes, Denis Noble, driver mutations, EGFR, Evolution, genes, IDH1/2, Intelligent Design, JAK2, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Kras, Medicine, metazoans, Michael Behe, Molecular Cancer Research, mutations, National Cancer Institute, Perry Marshall, PIK3CA, reproduction, survival, tumor, tumor promoter proteins, tumor suppressor proteins, Vanderbilt University
One day in the mid 2010s, Ann Gauger and I received a message that an ID-friendly scientist was in town and wanted to meet us. Source
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06Sep 2025 by Post

Here It Comes: First Transgenderism, Next Transableism

amputee, Anthony Kennedy, arms, bioethics, Body Identity Integrity Disorder, body parts, capacities, Culture, Daily Mail, Due Process Clause, insurance fraud, insurance scam, legs, limiting principle, Medicine, mental illness, Neil Hopper, Obergefell v. Hodges, paraplegic, personal autonomy, self-definition, self-restraint, sexual obsession, societal expectations, spinal cord, Transgender
Why is it not also appropriate to cut off unwanted arms or snip spinal cords if that brings emotional relief? Source
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03Sep 2025 by Post

Next: “Digital Twins” as a Matter of “Equity”?

Artificial Intelligence, bioethics, body integrity identity disorder, digital twins, disease, doctors, equity, gender-fluidity, government benefits, healing, health insurance, healthcare, Journal of Medical Ethics, Medicine, patients, reprogramming, Technology, trans identity, transgendeism, transgender people, transhumanists, transition, wellness
Medicine is no longer just about treating disease, healing injuries, and promoting physical wellness. Source
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27Aug 2025 by Post

Study: Mental Illness More Likely After Abortion than After Childbirth

abortion, abortionists, Canada, choice, comorbidity, hallucinogen, hospitalization, induced abortion, Journal of Psychiatric Research, medical journals, Medicine, mental health, pregnant women, pro-life movement, psychiatric disorders, psychology, Quebec, risk, substance use, Uncategorized, women
At the very least, if informed consent and “choice” are to mean anything, abortionists should be duty-bound to inform pregnant women about this particular risk. Source
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