13Nov 2025 by Post

“Harm Reduction” Harms the Homeless

bioethics, Debra J. Saunders, drug abuse, drug abusers, Executive Order, feces, harm reduction, harm causation, HIV, human dignity, Joshua Barocas, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Market Street, Medicine, mental illness, needle exchange, overdose, personal autonomy, playgrounds, public policies, safe injection sites, San Francisco, sidewalks, syringe-services programs, The New England Journal of Medicine, Trump Administration, Union Square
San Francisco was allowing harm reducers to give away “starter kits” to people so they could begin injecting drugs! Source
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06Sep 2025 by Post

Here It Comes: First Transgenderism, Next Transableism

amputee, Anthony Kennedy, arms, bioethics, Body Identity Integrity Disorder, body parts, capacities, Culture, Daily Mail, Due Process Clause, insurance fraud, insurance scam, legs, limiting principle, Medicine, mental illness, Neil Hopper, Obergefell v. Hodges, paraplegic, personal autonomy, self-definition, self-restraint, sexual obsession, societal expectations, spinal cord, Transgender
Why is it not also appropriate to cut off unwanted arms or snip spinal cords if that brings emotional relief? Source
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10Jul 2025 by Post

Scopes and History: A Personal Reminiscence

Bible, Clarence Darrow, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Dayton, Evolution, Field Museum of Natural History, Inherit the Wind, Intelligent Design, Jerome Lawrence, Melvyn Douglas, mental hospitals, mental illness, On the Origin of Species, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Proverbs, Robert E. Lee, science education, Spencer Tracy, Tennessee, William Jennings Bryan, __featured3
In 1956 my father, a devout Darwinian who had failed to persuade me by taking me to the esteemed Field Museum in Chicago, treated me to a theater offering. Source
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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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