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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09May 2024 by Post

Assuming Design, Researchers Achieve a Breakthrough in Understanding Circulatory System

age, BIO-Complexity, biology, blood, blood vessels, circulatory system, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Gheorghe Pop, Gregory Sloop, heart, hematocrit, Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine, Intelligent Design, John St. Cyt, Medicine, Netherlands, Radboud University Medical Center, red blood cells, Reductionism, Research, researchers, shear stress, sports anemia
The authors also explain how the standard evolutionary framework misdirected earlier researchers. Source
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24Feb 2024 by Post

Data Can Appear in Science Journals — Out of Thin Air

Almas Heshmati, autofill, Culture & Ethics, data, econometricians, Economics, Elsevier, Excel, Gary Smith, imputation, Jönköping University, Journal of Clean Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Mike Tsionas, Netherlands, New Zealand, Physics, Earth & Space, Retraction Watch, science journals, statistical peculiarities, Søren Johansen, United Kingdom, United States, University of Copenhagen, Zoom
While many researchers decried the results, University of Copenhagen econometrician Søren Johansen said something worth pondering. 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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07Feb 2023 by Post

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

abortion, American Pediatric Association, animal rights, animal welfare, Belgium, bioethics, birth, California, Canada, Culture & Ethics, doctors, ethics, Finland, France, Gender Dysphoria, gender-affirming care, geographical features, glaciers, Holocaust, human exceptionalism, human life, insects, Jews, Journal of Medical Ethics, Life Sciences, mastectomies, Netherlands, Ontario, Oregon, organ donation, peas, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, plants, rivers, Sweden, unborn children, United Kingdom, Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Source
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21Aug 2022 by Post

Pro-Abortion Absolutism and Its Consequences

abortion, Abortion Care Guideline, absolutists, after-birth abortion, bioethics, Christian florist, Colorado, embryonic stem cell research, embryos, ethcis, faith, fetus, Groningen protocol, human beings, Journal of Medical Ethics, Medicine, Netherlands, Peter Singer, pregnancy, public policy, rights, science, Second Amendment, The New England Journal of Medicine, unborn, Vermont, World Health Organization
Abortion absolutism is a radical departure from the once well-accepted idea that nascent human beings — at least at some level — deserve respect and protection. Source
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19Jul 2021 by Post

Don’t Forget Scientific Fraud

Anaesthesia (journal), China, Daniele Fanelli, Egypt, fraud, health, India, Iran, Japan, John Carlisle, London School of Economics, Medicine, Netherlands, Reason (magazine), relatives, Research, Richard Smith, science, Science and Engineering Ethics, scientists, South Korea, The BMJ, Turkey
“I’ve done the research. I have the facts.” Thus said two people to me on successive days over the weekend, in almost identical words. Source
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