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Polar bear on the ice. Two bears love on drifting ice with snow, white animals in nature habitat, Svalbard, Norway. Animals playing in snow, Arctic wildlife. Funny image in nature.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 24, 2024

Categories
Nature and Conservation
Tagged
, anthropogenic climate change, anthropogenic warming, Cambridge University, climate activism, climate activists, Climate Change, climate scientists, global climate change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, national review, Nature, scholars, science journal, scientism, Ulf Buntgen, Wesley J. Smith}

Too Many Climate Scientists Confuse ‘Science’ with Activism

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May 24, 2024

Nature and Conservation

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Remember when a scientist admitted to removing nuance from a climate-change study because he believed that Nature would not publish it if he did not strictly follow the favored narrative of human-caused climate catastrophe? And now — perhaps in a reaction to that piece — Nature has published a cogent warning that too many scientists in the climate-change sector conflate "climate science" with "climate activism." Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 22, 2024

Categories
COVID-19
Health Care
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, AIDS, Anthony Fauci, COVID, Covid vaccine, epidemiology, Francis Collins, gain of function research, Great Barrington Declaration, Harvard University, health agencies, Human Genome Project, Humanize, Jay Bhattacharya, lab leak hypothesis, lab leak theory, Martin Kulldorff, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, national review, Oxford University, pandemic, Public Health, public health officials, school closures, Senator Rand Paul, social distancing, social isolation, Stanford University, Sunetra Gupta, vaccination mandates, vaccine mandates, Wesley J. Smith, Wesley Smith, Wuhan, Wuhan Institute of Virology}

How Collins and Fauci Shattered Our Trust in Public Health

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May 22, 2024

COVID-19, Health Care

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The Covid pandemic was devastating, not only for society generally, but also to the reputations of our once-trusted health agencies. Two of America's once-leading public-health officials bear great responsibility for this debacle — former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases between 1984 and 2022. Read More ›

John W. Weeks vintage Bridge with clock tower over Charles River in Harvard University campus Boston

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 20, 2024

Categories
Nature and Conservation
Tagged
, China, environmental treaty, environmentalism, Harvard, Harvard Law and History Department, nature rights, Professor Lepore, Professor Salzman, rights of nature, United Nations, Utah, Wesley J. Smith}

Harvard Law to Teach Rights of Nature

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May 20, 2024

Nature and Conservation

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The mainstreaming of the rights-of-nature movement is accelerating — to the point that it is deemed worthy of a class at Harvard Law and History Department. Opponents had better start passing laws federally and in each state preserving "rights" and legal standing strictly to the human realm (as Utah did recently). Read More ›

A stethoscope neatly placed on top of a book, symbolizing the intersection of medicine and knowledge, A medical still life of a stethoscope arranged on a medical journal, AI Generated

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 17, 2024

Categories
Health Care
Patient Care
Tagged
, Equity, health care, medical journals, national review, new england journal of medicine, Wesley J. Smith, woke ideology}

The Woke Gobbledygook That Passes for Erudition in Medical Journals

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May 17, 2024

Health Care, Patient Care

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Our most august medical journals are in danger of becoming more woke ideological-advocacy publications than disseminations of learned scientific studies. This is particularly true of the New England Journal of Medicine, which regularly publishes progressive gibberish pushing "equity" that is often nearly impossible to understand. Read More ›

Team of doctors preparing for surgery, patient POV

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 15, 2024

Categories
Health Care
Patient Care
Tagged
, abortion, bioethicists, bioethics, bioethics committees, Christian doctors, conscience rights, conservatorship, Doctors, Doctors Need a Better Way to Treat Patients Without Their Consent, electroconvulsive therapy, expert committees, futile care, Hippocratic Oath, hospital hearing, hospitalization, hospitals, medical ethicists, medical profession, national review, New York, New York Times, nurses, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, patients, patients rights, refusal of treatment, Sandeep Jauhar, schizophrenia, social workers, technocracy, Wesley J. Smith, Wesley Smith}

No, Doctors Shouldn’t Make Treatment Decisions for Incompetent Patients

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May 15, 2024

Health Care, Patient Care

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Cardiologist and New York Times columnist Sandeep Jauhar has published a piece advocating that doctors and bioethicists be empowered to force treatment on some patients. He writes in the context of wanting to compel hospitalization on a schizophrenic patient with serious heart problems. From "Doctors Need a Better Way to Treat Patients Without Their Consent:" Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 9, 2024

Categories
Human Flourishing
Nature and Conservation
Tagged
, Billy Giblin, Colorado, conservation, dam, environmental law, Gary Wockner, human thriving, Humanize podcast, national review, nature rights movement, Nederlands, rights of nature, rivers, Save the Colorado, Save the World's Rivers, Thomas Alan Linzey, Tom Linzey, watersheds, Wesley J. Smith}

Colorado Town Learns the Harm Caused by Granting Rights to Nature

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May 9, 2024

Human Flourishing, Nature and Conservation

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The nature-rights movement isn't about conservation or responsible husbanding of the natural world. Rather, it seeks to handcuff human thriving by preventing most uses of our natural resources. But it sounds soooo nice, doesn't it? Well, the Colorado town of Nederland has learned the hard way that granting "rights" to waterways impedes all kinds of beneficial projects. Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 6, 2024

Tagged
, AI, Army Research Lab, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, Boeing, Discovery Institute, engineering, futurist, Huffington Post, Humanize podcast, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Minding the Brain, Motherboard, NASA, National Geographic, National Institutes of Health, New York Times, Newsweek, Non-Computable You, Office of Naval Research, Robert J. Marks II, TechCrunch, The Transhumanist Wager, Transhuman Citizen, Transhumanism, Transhumanist Party, Vice, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Wesley J. Smith, Wired, Zoltan Istvan}

Robert J. Marks II and Zoltan Istvan on the Promise — or Threat — of Artificial Intelligence

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May 6, 2024

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In this episode of Humanize, Wesley focuses on AI — artificial intelligence. Are we on the verge of an era if incalculable human progress because of the power of AI? Or are we threatened with being made obsolete and perhaps extinguished in an age of intelligent machines? Or, perhaps, a combination of both? The program features two experts who have Read More ›

african american gardener looking at freshly picked from the ground golden beets at community communal garden

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 6, 2024

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Nature and Conservation
Tagged
, animal consciousness, animal rights, animals, consciousness, environment, house plants, human exceptionalism, If Plants Could Talk, intelligence, intelligent design, national review, plant intelligence, plant rights, plants, Radio Atlantic, Wesley J. Smith, Zoe Schlanger}

Again with the ‘Plants Are Intelligent’ Nonsense

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May 6, 2024

Human Exceptionalism, Nature and Conservation

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Periodically, the mainstream media focus on advocacy for the idea that plants are intelligent and/or moral beings. For example, the New York Times ran a column some years back asserting that peas are persons. Why? Pea plants release chemicals in the soil that alert other pea plants of drought conditions. 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 ›

Sad little girl with backpack sitting in a wardrobe room

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 25, 2024

Categories
Human Rights
Transgenderism
Tagged
, Biden, Department of Education, Donald Trump, Epoch Times, feminism, gender, LGBT, radical gender ideology, Riley Gaines, Title IX, Wesley J. Smith}

The Biden Department of Education Seems to Hate Women and Girls

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April 25, 2024

Human Rights, Transgenderism

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In a slap to the face to all American women and girls in schools and universities, the Department of Education dismantled many existing federal protections against actual sex discrimination promulgated under a civil rights law known as Title IX — which protects females against discrimination at public schools, colleges, and universities receiving federal funding — by unilaterally rewriting the law to apply to “gender,” which isn’t the same thing at all. Read More ›