Two Tales from the Euthanasia Dystopia
Canada, compassion, crime, Culture & Ethics, Daily Mail, death, dignity, EuroNews, euthanasia, guidelines, killing, MAiD, Medicine, organ harvesting, organs, patients, PTSD, Punishment, social worker, Spain, Suffering, Tarragona, Terrassa, veterans
In Spain, a criminal who shot four people and was, in turn, shot in the spine by police and paralyzed, was granted death by euthanasia. Source
John West: Darwin’s Corrosive Idea
Culture, Culture & Ethics, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, Evolution, human dignity, ID The Future, John West, materialism, nature, Podcast, political science, scientific racism, Western culture
Darwin’s materialistic theory of evolution drained meaning from nature, undercut the idea of inherent human dignity, and fueled the rise of scientific racism. Source
Scientists Are Undermining Our Trust in Science
Alzheimer’s disease, autism, biotechnology, brain, Culture, Culture & Ethics, depression, fraud, funding, measles, mumps, peer-review, plaque, public health, Research, rubella, Science (journal), serotonin, South Korean, The Lancet, treatments, Vaccines
Falsification of scientific research has been a chronic problem for the sector in recent years. Source
Where the Abortion Debate Goes from Here
abortion, Americans United for Life, Australia, Catherine Glenn Foster, Center for Human Exceptionalism, Constitution, Culture & Ethics, Discovery Institute, Dobbs v. Jackson, Europe, federal courts, human rights, Humanize, media, Medicine, North America, pro-life movement, public policy, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, United States, Wesley Smith
On a new podcast, host Wesley Smith and guest Catherine Glenn Foster discuss the Dobbs decision. Source
Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are Not “Human”
adrenaline, algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Blake Lemoine, Boundaries of Humanity Project, computer science, Culture & Ethics, DNA, emotions, engineers, Feelings, free will, Google, human cells, imagination, Isaac Asimov, LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, life, Love, machines, materialists, Neuroscience & Mind, René Descartes, self-awareness, sentience, software, soul, Stanford University, Three Laws of Robotics, toaster, Washington Post, William Hurlbut
A Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, mistakenly designated one AI program "sentient." Source
How Euthanasia Activists Laid the Groundwork for Overturning Roe
abortion, activists, Anti-Euthanasia Task Force, assisted suicide, common law, Constitution, courts, Culture & Ethics, Dobbs v. Jackson, Due Process Clause, euthanasia, Fourteenth Amendment, history, hubris, Law, Medicine, Patients Rights Council, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, Washington v. Glucksberg
Back in the ’90s, the assisted-suicide movement tried to convince the Supreme Court to impose a Roe–style decision for their cause. Source
In the Footsteps of Social Darwinist Cesare Lombroso
biology, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Darwin, criminal justice, criminals, criminologists, criminology, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Day in America, Evolution, face masks, facial features, forensic medicine, head shape, heredity, Italy, museums, phrenology, prisoners, skeleton, skulls, Social Darwinism, Turin, University of Torino
Lombroso’s ideas were quack science. But they were taken seriously by criminologists and public officials around the world until they were debunked. Source
Court Rules Elephant Does Not Have Rights
activists, animal rights, animals, Bronx Zoo, Children, crime, Culture & Ethics, duties, elephants, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, illness, immaturity, injury, judges, New York State, News Media, Nonhuman Rights Project, people, rights, slaves, sophistry, species barrier, women, writ of habeas corpus
I have written here several times about the attempt by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP) to “break the species barrier.” Source
Canadian Bill to Allow Euthanasia of Dementia Patients
advance directive, Belgium, bioethics, Canada, Culture, Culture & Ethics, dementia, disability, disease, doctors, euthanasia, final consent, illness, killing, medical practitioner, Medicine, mental incapacity, Netherlands, nurse practitioner, patients
If the patient resists, the killing is not supposed to take place. Right. As though the person would know what was happening. Source