04Feb 2025 by Post

In Covid Response, Government Did Not Trust the People with Information

AIDS, americans, Anthony Fauci, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, coronaviruses, COVID-19, free speech, herd immunity, hospitalizations, immunology, infection, Joe Biden, Larry Hogan, Maryland, Medicine, pandemic, paternalism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert R. Redfield, truth, vaccine, Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund, vaccine mandates, viruses, Wesley J. Smith, White House Coronavirus Task Force
Ex-CDC director Robert Redfield explores the issue of trust in public health — and its loss — with Wesley J. Smith. Source
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17Dec 2024 by Post

What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?

Aristotle, augustine, blood, brains, carbon dioxide, Denyse O'Leary, emotions, free will, heart, Intellect, kidneys, mathematics, Medicine, memories, Montreal Neurological Institute, muscles, Mystery of the Mind, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, oxygen, pain, philosophy, Plato, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, urine, Wilder Penfield
A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be. Source
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14Dec 2024 by Post

Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain

brain, brain imaging, cerebellum, coordination, fMRI, Kirsten Hilger, Medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, movement, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, neurosurgeons, PNAS Nexus, strokes, textbooks, The Immortal Mind, thinking, tumors
A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once. Source
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03Nov 2024 by Post

We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals”

animals, bioethicists, brains, Culture & Ethics, doctors, experts, human life, humanized animals, humans, International Society for Stem Cell Research, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, Medicine, mental capacities, neural function, organoids, personalized animals, personhood theory, philosophers, pig, rats, Research, Sergiu Paşca, speciesism, unborn humans
Bioethics is a utilitarianish social-political movement whose primary advocates are usually philosophers, lawyers, and/or doctors. Source
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09Oct 2024 by Post

At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain?

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Logic isn’t a sufficient answer to the question I raised, however. For a scientific answer, we need evidence. Source
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26Sep 2024 by Post

My Briar Patch: Notes of a Country Doctor 

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It took me about twenty years after medical school to break free of the intellectual "comfort" afforded by the mechanistic consensus. Source
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