24May 2025 by Post

“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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16Apr 2025 by Post

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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09Apr 2025 by Post

A Needed Protest Against “AI Slop” and AI “Word Vomit”

aesthetics, AI slop, algorithm, art, articles, Artificial Intelligence, bioethics, Books, business, Center for Science and Culture, creative writing, Culture, headlines, human exceptionalism, humans, Javanese, Krakatoa, life coach, machines, Microsoft, Microsoft Copilot, Mind Matters News, Neuroscience & Mind, nonsense, personal assistant, Peter Biles, photographs, Plato's Revenge, Podcasts, Ted Gioia, writers
It’s all another lesson in human exceptionalism. I believe we will wake up from the AI delusion someday. Source
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08Apr 2025 by Post

At NIH, Bhattacharya Wants to Restore Open Inquiry

academic freedom, Anthony Fauci, bioethics, COVID-19, epidemiologists, Francis Collins, free speech, health policy, Honestly, Jay Bhattacharya, Khaleda Rahman, Lawrence D. Bobo, lockdowns, Maya Sulkin, Medicine, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Heath, Newsweek, Real Clear Politics, Scott Atlas, The Free Press, The New England Journal of Medicine, Washington Post, Wesley J. Smith
Restoring open discussion is certainly worth a try. Science advances more from doubt than from certainty. Source
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04Apr 2025 by Post

Decline and Fall: A Vision of a Human-Free Planet

Adrian Woolfson, Albert Einstein, anti-human exceptionalism, artificial general intelligence, bioethics, Children, Christianity, computers, Denisovans, Edward Gibbon, Foundation for Economic Education, Green Revolution, Henry Gee, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, human exceptionalism, human extinction, humans, Lawrence W. Reed, natural selection, Neanderthals, Neuroscience & Mind, Science (journal), The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
As the author of the review, Adrian Woolfson, says, the coming human eclipse originated in a sin against Darwinism. Source
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31Mar 2025 by Post

Hysteria in the Science Sector Over DOGE

Bethesda (magazine), bioethics, censorship, COVID-19, DOGE, Donald Trump, Francis Collins, free speech, hormone injections, hysteria, ideology, innovation, Jay Bhattacharya, layoffs, Medicine, National Institutes of Health, PhD students, Reform, research funding, respondents, scientific debate, scientists, Trump Administration
Whatever problems now exist for the public medical research funding sector, the disappointing Francis Collins helped create them. Source
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29Mar 2025 by Post

Congratulations to Jay Bhattacharya, Replacing Francis Collins at NIH!

academia, beliefs, belonging, bioethics, Center for Science and Culture, COVID-19, Donald Trump, epidemiologists, Evangelical Christians, Faith & Science, faith and science, fear, Francis Collins, free speech, Jay Bhattacharya, John Mac Ghlionn, John West, media, ministry, National Institutes of Health, Politico, Praise, promotions, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity: Why America’s Christian Leaders Are Failing — and What We Can Do About It
How can our country get more Bhattacharyas and fewer Collinses? That is one way of phrasing the question that Dr. West sets out to answer. Source
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