Author: Wesley J. Smith | Page 4

Closeup of paragraph symbol with vaccination injection syringe - euthanasia assisted suicide dying concept

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
May 29, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Assisted Suicide, France, Stéphane Gemmani}

France: Assisted Suicide on the March

_{Right-to-die campaigners have welcomed the law, though describing it as relatively modest in scope.} _{Wesley J. Smith
May 29, 2025

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Ethics, Medicine and Health}

“It’s a foot in the door, which will be important for what comes next,” said Stéphane Gemmani of the ADMD association.

hyperrealistic digital sculpture of gaia as a living mountain range with rivers for veins and forests for hair emerging from a swirling cosmic mist

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
May 23, 2025

Categorized
Environment, Politics

Tagged
For Nature program, National Geographic Society, Rights of Nature movement}

National Geographic Society to Fund ‘Nature Rights’ Advocacy

_{Geological features such as rivers, glaciers, waves, and even a mountain have already been granted “rights.”} _{Wesley J. Smith
May 23, 2025

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Environment, Politics}

“Nature rights” are unnecessary for proper environmental protection. The point is to throttle human activities.

Human Skull Desertification Climate Change Drought Death Arid Land Environmental Crisis

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
May 21, 2025

Categorized
Human exceptionalism

Tagged
Anti-humanism, Anti-natalism, David Attenborough, David Suzuki, Guy Edward Bartkus, Les Knight, Noah (film 2014), Paul Watson}

IVF Clinic Bomber Infected by Anti-Humanism

_{According to media reports, Bartkus, who died at the scene, was a “‘pro-mortalist’ (believing death is preferable to living) or an ‘anti-natalist’ (believing no more human beings should be born).”} _{Wesley J. Smith
May 21, 2025

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Human exceptionalism}

Culturally accepted human-phobia can be dangerous. There are mentally unbalanced people out there who don’t see misanthropy as merely an intellectual mind game.

Syringe with anaesthetic drug - Propofol, ready for infusion.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
May 15, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Law, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Assisted Suicide, L. S. Dugdale, New York state}

The Lies in New York’s Assisted Suicide Bill

_{New York is close to passing a bill to legalize assisted suicide. Having passed the assembly, it is currently being considered in the senate} _{Wesley J. Smith
May 15, 2025

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Ethics, Law, Medicine and Health}

Falsifying death certificates, for example, prevents transparency. Investigators will be unable to access the information they need to conduct independent studies.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
May 12, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health, Politics}

Bioethics: Just Another Social-Justice Political Movement Now?

_{A new survey shows how the movement has swung toward pushing woke “social justice” initiatives as its primary purpose} _{Wesley J. Smith
May 12, 2025

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Ethics, Medicine and Health, Politics}

Respondents overwhelmingly wanted an even more monolithic approach to social justice through what could be argued as an indoctrinating approach to education.

Black dominoes chain on table background

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
May 9, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Assisted Suicide, Estonia, Germany, Medical assistance in dying (MAiD)}

Estonia’s Supreme Court Declares a Right to Suicide

_{At least these rulings candidly cut through the toxic smoke so often generated by assisted-suicide advocates} _{Wesley J. Smith
May 9, 2025

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Ethics, Medicine and Health}

Such rulings demonstrate that the real goal/destination is a right to death by any competent person for any cause and assisted by anyone.

hands holiding red heart with kidney, world kidney day, organ donor day

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
May 7, 2025

Categorized
Business and Finance, Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
End Kidney Deaths Act, Iran, Kidney donation risks, Kidney donors, Sally Satel}

Human Kidney Suppliers Should Be Donors, Not Vendors

_{The government would be, essentially, paying people to harm themselves. People who are already disadvantaged would be most likely to volunteer} _{Wesley J. Smith
May 7, 2025

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Business and Finance, Ethics, Medicine and Health}

There are ample reasons why only one country in the world — Iran — allows kidney-selling. Not everything should be a sellable product.

eccentric mad scientist set against a solid green felt background, showcasing their quirky personality and wild inventions. Ideal for promoting creativity, science events, or educational materials

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
May 5, 2025

Categorized
Censorship, Media, Science

Tagged
Edward Martin Jr., Eric Rubin, New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet}

The Wrong Tool to Fix Woke Science Journals

_{The government has no business pressuring medical journals about their content — even if their bias is ruining historic reputations} _{Wesley J. Smith
May 5, 2025

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Censorship, Media, Science}

The First Amendment applies here. The editors and publishers have every right to destroy their journals’ reputations without fear of being investigated.

little bald girl after chemotherapy session with her caring and supportive brother in a hospital room, supporting family, hope and recovery from cancer

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
May 4, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
David N. Korones, Futile care concept, Hope and illness, Kristin M. Collier, Zoha (patient)}

A Compassionate Doctor Keeps Hope Alive

_{As this story shows, sometimes the hope is not for a cure so much as for assurance that the patient has not been abandoned} _{Wesley J. Smith
May 4, 2025

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Ethics, Medicine and Health}

There are signs of a needed pushback against a bioethics-driven “just check all the boxes” approach to terminal care where the need for hope is brushed aside.

alien planet landscape, beautiful forest the surface of an exoplanet

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 26, 2025

Categorized
Extraterrestrial life, Human exceptionalism

Tagged
Matt Ridley}

Why Life Beyond Earth Would Prove Human Exceptionalism

_{A science writer thinks that finding life on other planets in our galaxy would somehow put a dent in our “self-importance”} _{Wesley J. Smith
April 26, 2025

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Extraterrestrial life, Human exceptionalism}

Actually, human minds created sophisticated instruments that project our understanding light years away, using the scientific method that we created.

Beauty injection concept. Syringe with violet liquid for hypodermic injection.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 24, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Assisted Suicide, New Jersey, Phil Murphy, suicide, Suicide prevention}

New Jersey Program Aims to Prevent Suicide— Just Not All Suicides

_{In New Jersey, the self-terminations of people with a prognosis of six months or less ceases to be “suicide” when facilitated by a doctor} _{Wesley J. Smith
April 24, 2025

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Ethics, Medicine and Health}

Yet terminally ill patients opt for assisted suicide typically because of issues such as fears of burdening family, losing dignity, not untreatable pain.

Aerial View of Coal Fired Power Plant on the Ohio River

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 22, 2025

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Politics

Tagged
Fossil fuels, Renewable energy, Trust in science}

Medical Journal Article Urges Mass Propaganda Against Fossil Fuel

_{Medical intellectuals may be clueless, but most people understand that modern society depends on the ubiquitous use of fossil fuels} _{Wesley J. Smith
April 22, 2025

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Medicine and Health, Politics}

Plastic, used in countless medical products, could not be manufactured including artificial heart valves. Irony: Plastic cells are used in solar panels

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 17, 2025

Tagged
Assisted Suicide, Daniel Kahneman, Ezekiel Emanuel, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Peter Singer}

Famed Ethics Prof Endorses Suicide for Old People in New York Times

_{Peter Singer supports suicide not just for those who are ill now but who fear that they might become so} _{Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2025

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Do the philosophers not understand how bigoted and anti-intrinsic dignity of life their relativistic assumptions are about when a life is worth continuing?

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 15, 2025

Categorized
Biology, Ethics

Tagged
Embryo research limits, Fetal farming}

How ‘Expedience Ethics’ Busts Through Moral Limits

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April 15, 2025

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Biology, Ethics}

Under the new definition, an embryo isn’t considered an embryo if it is to be used as research fodder rather than gestated.

Autumn River Tours in Canada illustrated in a clean infographic, showcasing river cruises and canoe trips through scenic waterways like the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa River

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 9, 2025

Categorized
Environment, Law

Tagged
Nature rights activism, New York state, Water (as having rights)}

New York State: Bill of Rights Proposed for Lakes, Waterways

_{Imagine the disruption of normal life if waterways could not be used to make a living or be treated as property at all. But that’s the goal} _{Wesley J. Smith
April 9, 2025

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Environment, Law}

This bill illustrates the expansive and anti-human goals of the nature-rights movement, which is gaining steam every day.

Close-up shot of microscope with metal lens at laboratory.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
March 31, 2025

Categorized
Politics, Science

Tagged
Francis COllins, Jay Bhattacharya, Scientists in U.S.}

75% of Scientists in Nature Survey Thinking About Leaving U.S.

_{But there is less to this "trend" than meets the eye, when we look more closely at the survey} _{Wesley J. Smith
March 31, 2025

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Politics, Science}

Respondents were self-selected and are probably more ideological or more personally impacted by the changes in approach.

Enteral feeding dropper and a old man patient in the hospital with oxygen mask in the background

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
March 20, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Law, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Arthur Caplan, Brain injuries, Dominic Sisti, Terri Schiavo}

Bioethicists Get Legacy of Terri Schiavo Death Wrong

_{Some bioethicists complain that her protracted starvation death has powered pro-life forces into political prominence} _{Wesley J. Smith
March 20, 2025

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Ethics, Law, Medicine and Health}

In reality, after the Schiavo case encouraged acceptance, majorities supported such deaths and people with severe brain injuries became a disposable caste.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
March 18, 2025

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Politics

Tagged
Transgender claims and science, WPATH}

Medical Support for “Gender-Affirming Care” Is Cracking

_{Amid stubborn denials, a new article in a prominent journal admits that the “science” is far from settled and recommends caution, not enthusiasm} _{Wesley J. Smith
March 18, 2025

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Medicine and Health, Politics}

States like California that treat parents who refuse to consent to radical procedures as abusers can no longer claim a scientific basis for their policies.

Abstract bacteria, probiotics, gram positive bacteria bacteria and viruses of various shapes against a light background. Concept of science, medicine. Microbiology background. 3d illustration.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
March 16, 2025

Categorized
Human exceptionalism

Tagged
Jeff Sebo, Moral Circle (Norton 2025), Preborn children}

In Moral Terms, Are Microbes More Important Than People?

_{Jeff Sebo advocates widening the moral circle to include, plants, microbes, and computers in a sort of radical equality} _{Wesley J. Smith
March 16, 2025

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Human exceptionalism}

With all the talk of morality, I was particularly struck by a category of moral “patients” he fails to discuss: gestating human babies.

A monkey looking at a virus in a close-up shot

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
March 12, 2025

Categorized
Law, Politics

Tagged
Edward Taub, Ingrid Newkirk, PETA and primates, PETA lawsuits, Silver Spring Monkey Case, Stroke therapy}

PETA Sues NIH: Claims First Amendment Right to Talk to Monkeys

_{The complaint alleges the animal rights advocates have a right to receive communications from “fellow primates” that are “willing speakers.”} _{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2025

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Law, Politics}

Effective stroke treatment was almost prevented decades ago because animal rights fanatics nearly destroyed the researcher’s career. PETA still brags about it.