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Howard Glicksman and Steve Laufmann at Discovery Institute's 2022 Insiders Briefing
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Steve Laufmann and Howard Glicksman on the Design of the Human Body

In this episode of the Humanize podcast we will explore the human body. Is your body “engineered” or did it evolve through impersonal and random processes over countless millions of years of natural selection? And what difference does the answer to that question make? Wesley’s guests are the authors of Your Designed Body, a new book that explores the complexity Read More ›

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Young pregnant woman by the window
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‘Baby Farms’ Are Already Here

Will artificial wombs replace natural gestation? Until very recently, that notion was a far-fetched conjuring out of futuristic novels such as “Brave New World.” But research is fast advancing that could make this dystopian prospect a reality. Read More ›
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on COVID-19 as One of the Most Divisive Events in American History

The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most politically and culturally divisive events in American history. Which seems odd. Usually, a universal external threat unites societies and rallies populations to focus on the common foe. Instead, American society fractured into different tribes, which often coincided with our preexisting political factionalism. Adding to our woes, the proper approach to scientific Read More ›

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Young pea (Pisum) sprouts in a sunny vegetable garden
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The Fear of Suffering is Driving Us Crazy

But eliminating suffering is impossible. Not only is the goal Utopian, but it leads to ever-more-extreme distortions of decency and a collapse of public policy rationality—which ironically, can cause the very “evil” that suffering abolitionists yearn so desperately to prevent. Read More ›
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Gavel leaning against a row of law books
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Court Finds No Constitutional Right to Assisted Suicide in Massachusetts

I just hope that state’s legislators read this decision carefully because, as the paragraph I quoted above demonstrates, maintaining the law against assisted suicide serves and protects the general welfare and is in the public interest. Read More ›
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Multiple Coal Fossil Fuel Power Plant Smokestacks Emit Carbon Dioxide Pollution
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Now, It’s Carbon ‘Net-Zero Healthcare’ to Fight Global Warming

With all of the wokeness and technocratic impositions the medical establishment is eager to impose on health care these days, why would anyone go to medical school or become a hospital administrator? Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith Discusses Dutch Court Decision to Strike Down Measure that Expands Euthanasia Laws

A court has struck down a measure to expand euthanasia laws in the Netherlands. Activists wanted to make it legal for non-medical professionals to perform assisted suicide procedures. Read More ›
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Care worker giving water to elderly woman in geriatric hospice
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Hospice in Crisis

This much is clear: Hospice either gets fixed, or society will be pushed into the arms of the euthanasia movement, with all of its attendant evils (as currently unfolding in Canada). Because people are not going to put up with their loved ones dying in agony. Read More ›
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Chen Guangcheng, Chinese human rights activist, during an interview with AFP April 9, 2013 in Washington, DC. Chen, the most public foe of China's forced abortion policy, will speak before the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights later April 9. The hearing, "Chen Guangcheng and Gao Zhisheng: Human Rights in China," will focus on Beijing's dismal record of human rights abuses, something many politicians said would improve if the nation were granted permanent most favored nation trading status in 2001. AFP PHOTO/Karen BLEIER (Photo credit should read KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)

Chen Guangcheng on the Current Tyranny in the People’s Republic of China

In the current episode of Humanize, Wesley interviews Chen Guangcheng, an authentic human rights hero and adamant opponent of Chinese Communist Party tyranny that rules the People’s Republic of China. Known internationally as “the barefoot lawyer,” Chen is a renowned human rights activist who fearlessly advocated for the welfare and rights of women, the disabled, and the poor while in Read More ›

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Male person with gloved hand turns off the intravenous drug system to the unconscious patient
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Euthanasia Without Brakes

If we don’t change our current cultural trajectory we will end up in the same dark corner as Canada, the Netherlands, and Belgium. And the real danger to our cultural wellbeing is that the people who now complacently assume that such warnings are alarmist will be the ones applauding the loudest when that dark time comes. Read More ›