Xi and Putin: Tyranny and Transhumanism

bioethics, biotechnology, carbon molecules, China, Communists, death, despair, Falun Gong, hope, immortality, life-extension, obliteration, organ black market, organs, Orthodox Christians, political prisoners, Russia, Technology, transhumanism, transhumanists, tyranny, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping
Transhumanism is mostly a materialistic wail of despair in the night, a desperate quest for hope for those who are terrified that death leads to obliteration. Source
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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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The Horrors of Canadian Euthanasia

Andrew Coyne, Auld Lang Syne, Be Ceremonial, bioethics, Canada, Catholic priests, Children, Culture, death, Disrupting Death, doctors, Elaina Plott Calabro, euthanasia, faith, Faith & Science, funeral home, garden, homicides, life, Medicine, Ontario, pajama party, patients, suicide, suicide prevention, suicides, The Atlantic
As journalist Andrew Coyne said, “A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death.” Source
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Attacks on Medical Conscience Will Force Doctors to Take Human Life

abortion, assisted suicide, Australia, bioethics, British Columbia, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, Ezekiel Emanuel, health care, health professionals, Hippocratic moral values, Hippocratic Oath, hospice, hospitals, human life, Julian Savulescu, medical conscience, medical school, medical values, Medicine, nurses, nursing homes, nursing school, Ontario, patients, Reproductive Science, transgenderism
Destroying conscience will inhibit talented people with particular moral or religious beliefs from entering medical and nursing schools. Source
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The Challenge to Darwinism from Camp Mystic

bacteria, bioethics, Camp Mystic, campers, counsellors, Darwinism, David Bentley Hart, evil, Evolution, Faith & Science, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Good, Gottfried Leibnitz, group selection, innocent suffering, Ivan Karamazov, kin selection, Lisbon earthquake, mourning, natural selection, PZ Myers, reciprocal altruism, summer camp, The Doors of the Sea, theodicy, Voltaire
One of the most tragic events I can remember happened this July 4th — a flash flood killed nearly 200 people, 27 of whom were children and staff at Camp Mystic. Source
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A Disagreement with Shermer on the Ethics of IVF

bioethics, chattel slaves, Children, Christian bioethics, Christof Koch, conception, Denyse O'Leary, Faith & Science, human beings, in vitro fertilization, industrial manufacture, IVF, Medicine, Michael Shermer, organ donors, persons, Piers Morgan, Roman Catholicism, sexual slaves, Skeptic (podcast), soldiers, The Immortal Mind
It is quite possible to seek good ends (children) by bad means (their industrial manufacture). These are very real concerns. Source
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“Nature Rights” Hits the Big Time

Alfred Kobacker and Elizabeth Trimbach Fund, anti-humanism, bioethics, China, ecosystems, endangered species, enforcement, glaciers, habitats, human exceptionalism, human rights, human thriving, humankind, International Day for Biological Diversity, lawfare, Life Sciences, mountain, National Geographic Society, nature rights, rivers, waves
The National Geographic Society — one of the world’s largest and most influential science organizations — is going to pour money into the movement. Source
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Depraved: New York Times Pushes Assisted Suicide for the Elderly

bioethics, Culture, Daniel Kahneman, disabilities, elderly, Ezekiel Emanuel, family, friendship, geriatric suicide, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Medicine, mentally ill, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Peter Singer, philosophers, philosophy, Princeton University, suicide, Switzerland, The Atlantic
The victims of such a nihilistic mindset will be the elderly, people with disabilities, the mentally ill, and the seriously sick in an ever-widening swath. Source
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