20Jun 2024 by Post

Steven Buri, Wesley Smith: What Is a Human Being?

Angels, animals, Bruce Chapman, Center for Science and Culture, Center for Wealth and Poverty, creator, Culture & Ethics, drug addiction, George Gilder, guerrilla, harm reduction, homelessness, housing first, human being, human exceptionalism, Human Origins, Humanize, humans, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Choe, journalism, mental illness, Steven Buri, think tank, vision, Wesley J. Smith
That politicians and activists can watch their fellow men wallow in degradation this way is itself a twisted tribute to human exceptionalism. Source
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02Jun 2024 by Post

On Tobacco, Technocracy Has a Clever New Idea

Australia, Brookline, cancer, cocaine, Culture & Ethics, European Union, fentanyl, fossil fuels, global warming, hard drugs, health emergency, Malaysia, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, meat, Medicine, meth, New England Journal of Medicine, New Zealand, nicotine, Norway, Oregon, Philippines, Singapore, smoking, technocracy, THC, Tobacco Free Generation
Is tobacco just the first villain to be punished by a growing technocracy that seeks to limit freedom based on an ever-expanding definition of “health”? Source
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30May 2024 by Post

How the Christian Civil Rights Movement Defeated Social Darwinism and Eugenics

Adolf Hitler, American Birth Control League, Birth Control Review, Blessed Are the Barren, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Communism, concentration camp, Culture & Ethics, Eugen Fischer, eugenics, Evolution, Garrett, Islam, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Ku Klux Klan, Lothrop Stoddard, Maafa 21, Margaret Sanger, Martin Luther King Jr., Mein Kampf, Michael Flannery, Planned Parenthood, Racism, Swahili, William Graham, World War I
American apostles of Darwinism had begun the 20th century weaponizing common racist attitudes to popularize Darwin’s theory Source
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23May 2024 by Post

How the Public Health Establishment Squandered Our Trust

Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Francis Collins, Great Barrington Declaration, Human Genome Project, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorff, media, Medicine, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, National Review, pandemic, public health, Sunetra Gupta, vaccination, Wuhan Institute of Virology
The Covid pandemic was devastating, not only for society generally, but also to the reputations of our once-trusted health agencies. Source
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11May 2024 by Post

An Ape with Evolution on His Mind

apes, Caesar, Charles Darwin, chimps, civilization, Culture, Culture & Ethics, eagles, Evolution, films, franchise, Human Origins, humans, intelligence, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, knowledge, movies, observatory, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Owen Teague, pandemic, Planet of the Apes, tyranny, universe, virus
“Are you familiar with the concept of evolution?” asks the ape leader who is bent on raising himself to the level of the human. Source
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26Apr 2024 by Post

Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!

abortion, Anglicans, anti-racism, assisted suicide, bioethicists, bioethics, carbon tax, Catholicism, cease-fire, Culture & Ethics, DEI, disability, embryonic stem cells, equity, experts, Gaza, gender, gobbledygook, Hastings Center Report, health, human cloning, Impact Ethics, indigeneity, lawyers, MDs, medical conscience, Medicine, philosophers, pro-life, Progressive Ideology, Race, Second Amendment, sexuality, technocracy, university professors, Vardit Ravitsky, woke ideology
It seems to me that the best approach to the policy opinions of mainstream bioethicists is to consider the source, shrug, and carry on. Source
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