Tag: Gaza

Chinese flags on barbed wire wall in Kashgar (Kashi), Xinjiang, China.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 21, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Science Journals
Tagged
, bioethics, China, Falun Gong, Gaza, genocide, health law, Israel, Jan Jekielek, Killed to Order, medical ethics, organ harvesting, Slovenia, The Lancet, Uyghurs}

Article in The Lancet Decries Bioethics Conference for Not Condemning Genocide

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March 21, 2026

Bioethics, Science Journals

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An article in The Lancet decries the recent 17th World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics, and Health Law for failing to condemn “genocide.” Of course, the authors are referencing Israel’s self-defense in Gaza. From, “Silence on Genocide at the World Conference on Bioethics:” Between Nov 24 and Nov 27, 2025, the International Chair in Bioethics held its 17th World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics, and Health Law in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Despite being hosted in a nation whose President has vocally condemned the “genocide in Gaza” at the UN, the conference stood in stark contrast to its setting. No scheduled sessions discussed the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe, representing a profound disconnect between the event’s location and its content… If an organisation claiming Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 11, 2024

Categories
Health Care
Human Rights
Tagged
, Gaza, Geneva Project, Hamas, health emergency, international community, international institutions, Israel, Lancet, national review, Palestine, pandemic agreement, Public Health, Richard Horton, technocracy, Wesley J. Smith, World Health Assembly, World Health Organization}

The Lancet: You Are ‘Hardly Human’ If You Don’t Believe in the International Community

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June 11, 2024

Health Care, Human Rights

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The Lancet's editor in chief, Richard Horton, is furious at people who don't believe in the international community. The "system" is failing, he says — and it's the fault of evil right-wingers. Why, oh, why, Horton moans, are people so unwilling to docilely follow the lead of international institutions? Read More ›

Laboratory with Team of Microbiology Scientists Have Meeting

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 29, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, abortion, anti-racism, assisted suicide, bioethicists, bioethics, biomedicine, carbon taxes, censorship, DEI, disinformation, embryonic stem cells, Equity, Experts, Gaza, Gender-Affirming Care, Hastings Center Report, health care, human cloning, human flourishing, human health, Impact Ethics, medical conscience, misinformation, national review, policy opinions, progressive politics, public policy, right to health, second amendment, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, vaccine mandates, Vardit Ravitsky, Wesley J. Smith, WHO, woke technocracy}

Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!

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April 29, 2024

Bioethics

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Bioethics has always been about granting "experts" in the field tremendous influence over public policy. And now, one of the most prominent practitioners in the field — the president and CEO of the Hastings Center Report, a prestigious bioethics journal — has urged that bioethicists expand their "expert" advocacy to issues of "global" importance. Read More ›