Is Government’s Relationship with Science “Crumbling”?

Andrea Gawrylewski, Armageddon, arXiv, autoethnography, Carole LaBonne, Colin Wright, COVID-19, Democrats, Gallup, government, Grant Witness, grants, H. Winet, hallucinations, Harvard University, Keir Starmer, Medicine, NIH, Northwestern University, political science, references, Republicans, Research, researchers, Science Alert, Scientific American, Scott Delaney, Today in Science, Vannevar Bush, Vitomir Kovanovic
The people who do not trust science today would probably like to be able to. And the people who do trust it may simply be unaware of the problems. Source
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Covert Consciousness Poses Bioethical Dilemmas

Adrian Owen, bioethics, brain damage, brain injury, Brian Edlow, car accident, Columbia University, covert consciousness, doctors, fMRI machine, Harvard Medicine, hidden awareness, ICU, Medicine, Michael Egnor, Michael Young, Molly McDonough, Neuralink, patients, Science (journal), treatment, vegetative state
A great deal of work is needed in clinical studies to provide a large enough database to help guide treatment decisions. Source
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On Morality of Suicide, a Wide Disparity of Opinion; Why?

assisted suicide, authority, bioethics, business, chronic pain, despair, disability, doctors, Gallup, Love, media, Medicine, moral acceptability, opinions, physician-assisted suicide, poll, popular culture, prevention, rescue, respondents, self-termination, spouse, suicide, terminal sickness
Close to a majority, 49 percent, answered that committing suicide with a doctor’s help is morally acceptable, while 45 percent responded that it is not. Source
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Journal Advocates “Terminal Sedation” for People Committing Suicide by Self-Starving

antipsychotics, assisted suicide, bioethicists, bioethics, Bioethics (journal), confusion, decision‐making, dehydration, distress, doctors, encouragement, euthanasia, fluids, HIV, Medicine, palliating doctor, patients, physicians, professional journals, refractory delirium, self-starvation, Suffering, suicide, suicide assistance, syringes, terminal sedation, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED
Articles in professional journals are a means of constructing future public policy and people need to be warned. Source
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Hello, Materialists, Let’s Weigh and Measure the Mind

Alain Aspect, Albert Einstein, American Heritage Dictionary, Anton Zeilinger, Charles Murray, Discovery Institute, Hanna Webster, Herbert Benson, human mind, International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, John F. Clauser, Margaret Harris, materialism, Medicine, Michael Egnor, Neuroscience & Mind, New England Skeptical Society, placebo effect, Popular Mechanics, quantum Zeno effect, Steven Novella, sugar pill, terminal lucidity, The Immortal Mind, The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Vaccines
A recent review of our book provides a chances to reflect on mind verus matter — and materialism. Source
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Do Brain-Jolts Really Explain Near-Death Experiences?

Alex Hughes, Anna Stone, Anomalistic Psychology, BBC, BBC Science Focus, Chris French, consciousness theories, enhanced experience, fulfilment, Goldsmiths University, happiness, human consciousness, materialism, medical science, Medicine, Michael Egnor, Money, morality, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, paranormal, religion, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, sensory stimuli, The Immortal Mind
One change I have noticed recently is that science writers seem a bit more careful with the topic than they used to be. Source
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Questioning the Science Experts: Is It Even Permitted?

Blaise Pascal, COVID-19, Darwinism, epidemiologists, Evolution, experts, global cooling, global warming, Great Barrington Declaration, House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Intelligent Design, J. Budziszewski, Jonathan Haidt, journalists, medical professionals, Medicine, Pandemic of Lunacy, People for the American Way, political debates, psychologist, schools, scientific reasoning, scientists, University of Texas at Austin, workplaces
If you're trying to do ID science, it's a little bit easier to be intellectually honest, because you have to work harder to make the case for your claim. Source
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Ethics Journal Urges MANDATORY Abortion for Pregnant Minors

abortion, antiboyism, antigirlism, authoritarianism, baby, bioethics, breasts, California, carefreeness, Children, China, choice, coercion, discrimination, Ethics (journal), force, gestating, gestation, girls, Medicine, mothering, peer-reviewed journals, philosophers, physical restraint, pregnancy, pro-abortion, pro-choice, pro-life, sedation, terminology, totalitarianism, Transgender, University of British Columbia
There is a word to describe “philosophy” like this: totalitarian. Indeed, it reminds me of China’s “one-child” policy. Source
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