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Censored keyboard key. Finger
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Wesley J. Smith
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January 10, 2021
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Parler is Silenced

Wesley J. Smith
January 10, 2021
Human Exceptionalism
The social media company Parler—which is a French word meaning “to speak”—was mugged and left for dead by Big Tech last week in what appears to be the start of a cultural offensive aimed at stifling conservative advocacy in our country’s public discourse. Read More ›
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Paid medicine in Canada. Medical tourism. Healthcare in Canada. Treatment abroad. Treatment in Canada. Medical services.
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Wesley J. Smith
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January 8, 2021
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Canadian Hospice to Be Shuttered for Refusing Euthanasia

Wesley J. Smith
January 8, 2021
Euthanasia
I have written here before about Delta Hospice in British Columbia, which has been under unremitting pressure by the government of the province — including a funding cutoff — only because it refuses to participate in euthanasia. It is now being forced to lay off clinical workers and faces eviction. Read More ›
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Ecological disaster of fires in the Amazon, South America
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Wesley J. Smith
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January 5, 2021
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World Medical Association Wants Worldwide ‘Climate Emergency’ Declared

Wesley J. Smith
January 5, 2021
Nature and Conservation
I have written here often about how the scientific and medical sectors are destroying their credibility by growing increasingly ideological. Here’s another example. The World Medical Association has come down with a nasty case of global-warming hysteria. Read More ›
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Older woman lying in hospital bed alone looking at the Christian crucifix asking for her healing.
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Wesley J. Smith
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January 4, 2021
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NY Bill Would Hospitalize Infectious Sick Forcibly without Hearing

Wesley J. Smith
January 4, 2021
Patient Care
A bill in the New York legislature would permit sick people deemed a threat to public health to be hospitalized forcibly without a hearing based on the order of the governor or heads of local health departments. Read More ›
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Medical syringe in the doctor's hands on the patient's in room h
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Wesley J. Smith
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December 31, 2020
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The Euthanasia Cancer Spreads

Wesley J. Smith
December 31, 2020
Euthanasia
The West is tearing itself apart. The symptoms are evident in our bitterly divided politics and the attempts to punish those with heterodox views. Read More ›
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Chinese flags on barbed wired wall in Kashgar (Kashi), Xinjiang, China.
Chinese flags on barbed wired wall in Kashgar (Kashi), Xinjiang, China.
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Wesley J. Smith
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December 29, 2020
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Human Rights
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Apple Supplier Charged with Exploiting Uyghur Forced Labor

Wesley J. Smith
December 29, 2020
Human Rights
We hear a lot about “reckonings” these days. But surely something has to be done about the atrocious human-rights abuses in China that appear to include slave/forced labor for the benefit of American companies such as Apple. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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December 14, 2020
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Austrian Court Creates Right to Assisted Suicide

Wesley J. Smith
December 14, 2020
Euthanasia
A bit ago, Germany’s high court created an absolute right to commit suicide and the concomitant right to have help in making oneself dead. Now, an Austrian court has said that committing suicide is a right of “self determination” and that obtaining help is part of that right. Read More ›
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Birth Certificate for Live Baby Born
Birth Certificate for Live Baby Born
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Wesley J. Smith
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December 12, 2020
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Not Identifying Sex on Birth Certificates Pushed in New England Journal of Medicine

Wesley J. Smith
December 12, 2020
Conscience

The New England Journal of Medicine continues its hard swing to the woke left. Now, it has published an advocacy article that would remove sex designation as an identifiable factor on birth certificates. From, “Failed Assignments: Rethinking Sex Designations on Birth Certificates”: Assigning sex at birth also doesn’t capture the diversity of people’s experiences. About 6 in 1000 people identify as transgender, meaning that their gender identity doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. Others are nonbinary, meaning they don’t exclusively identify as a man or a woman, or gender nonconforming, meaning their behavior or appearance doesn’t align with social expectations for their assigned sex. The idea is to move sex designation “below the line,” which allows for general statistical Read More ›

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Aerial view of river in tropical green forest with mountains in background
Aerial view of river in tropical green forest with mountains in background
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Wesley J. Smith
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December 1, 2020
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Nature and Conservation
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Missouri Bill to Ban ‘Rights of Nature’

Wesley J. Smith
December 1, 2020
Nature and Conservation
Good. A bill has been filed in Missouri to ban granting legal rights or court standing to any non-human aspect of nature. Read More ›
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Elderly woman wearing a mask to protect from coronavirus covid-19
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Wesley J. Smith
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November 24, 2020
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Human Rights
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Does Mask Efficacy Justify Universal Mandates?

Wesley J. Smith
November 24, 2020
Human Rights
I have never thought that opposing mask mandates was a hill to die on, as the interference on personal liberty is relatively minimal. But I don’t think that universal mandates are justified empirically or worth the adverse political ramifications they cause. Read More ›
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