Canada’s Euthanasia Horrors Are Accelerating
27% of Canadians strongly or moderately agree that euthanasia is acceptable for suffering caused by “poverty” and 28% for suffering caused by homelessness.
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Wesley J. Smith
Should ‘Experts’ Decide the Morality of Making ‘Humanized Animals’?
A major new article discusses implanting functional human brain tissue into animals, which could enhance their mental capacitiesWe can’t allow policies about some of the most powerful and potentially dangerous technologies ever invented to be left to the supposed moral “experts.”
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Top Journal Nature Promotes Views of Anti-Israel Demonstrator
What any of this has to do with promoting science is beyond me. It’s politics and ideology, pure and simple. Perhaps that’s why the interview is not behind a paywallThe editors of Nature are destroying a once venerable and important science journal. That’s bad for science, which is bad for the world. Shame.
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Will Colorado Allow Elephants to Sue?
The Nonhuman Rights Project wants to become the guardian of five elephants at the Colorado Springs zoo and take control of their careThe zoo, where the elephants have lived for years, has a sterling reputation but the advocates believe that they know better what elephants would want.
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Jack Phillips Wins the ‘Cake-Baking’ Case
. . . but not on the merits, unfortunately. His legal troubles may not be overWhat the country really needs is a strong Supreme Court decision unequivocally reinvigorating the free-exercise clause by overturning Employment Division v Smith
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Scandal! Science Journal Busts Allegedly Bogus Neurological Science
If these leading dementia studies’ images are indeed falsified, many years of follow-up research by others may have been wastedDementia is not politically sensitive. But if the topic were, say, gender dysphoria, would honesty be likewise demanded? No wonder so many doubt science now.
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Bioethicists Push Psychedelics to Make Life ‘Interesting’
The dangers of taking such drugs aside, their proposal reflects the reductionism of our timeWhat many people are really craving isn’t “interesting” experiences but meaning. But sources of meaning like faith, family, community, country, have decayed.
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Death by Nitrogen: Cruel or Death with Dignity?
We are told that suicide by nitrogen in the suicide pod is peaceful and dignified.Execution by nitrogen inhalation is another example of what I call cruel and unusual death with dignity.
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Medical Journal Pushes Conjoining Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting
Conjoining organ harvesting with euthanasia is now deemed so respectable it is even boosted at the highest levels of the medical establishmentOrgan harvesting as the means of euthanasia has already been proposed in a major bioethics journal.
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The ‘Suicide Capsule’ Claims Its First Victim
A photographer was present to record the death — meaning to create images for suicide proselytizingI would be surprised if anything came of it. Authorities rarely have the gumption to seriously punish suicide assistance unless in involves a teenager.
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Delaware Governor Vetoes Assisted Suicide Legalization
Both a Democrat and a Republican governor have vetoed the practice. Opposition to the practice is culturally and religiously diverseThe longer the euthanasia movement is held at bay, the more likely that America can avoid becoming a culture of death like that in Canada.
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The Science Establishment Continues to Politicize “Science”
And that ain’t good for scienceIncreasingly, those who claim to be science’s greatest defenders do the sector wrong by becoming highly ideological and progressively partisan.
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Falun Gong Member Whose Organs Were Harvested Proves China’s Guilt
Prisoners like the Uyghurs or Falun Gong are valued for organ transplants on account of their clean living lifestyles, unlike common criminalsChina has denied the accusation repeatedly, but multiple international studies and exposés have substantiated the brutality with strong circumstantial evidence.
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Who Speaks at Top Children’s Doctors’ Conference?
The keynote speaker at this year’s American Academy of Pediatrics meet are very far from where most parents might expectChoosing Rachel Levine and Seema Yasmin as keynoters reveals how one-sidedly ideological the AAP has become on issues of great cultural importance.
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Get Ready for ‘Public Health’ Authoritarianism
The medical establishment is laying the groundwork for imposing left-wing political policies from the top down and disguising them as health-relatedLately, columns in professional journals have argued repeatedly that our most contentious political controversies be redefined into issues of public health.
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‘Nonmedical’ Assisted Suicide This Way Comes
Some assisted suicide advocates promote a model where no medical personnel need be involvedGermany’s highest court declared a fundamental right to commit or assist in a suicide for any reason, possibly excepting children.
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“Personhood Credentials”: The Next Big Thing in online security?
“I’m a human” credentials, intended to combat fraud, would likely start out voluntary but then, by degrees, become mandatoryRather than simplifying our lives, the internet has made our lives more complicated, what with having to continually change passwords, the use of multiple security levels, the threat of hacking, and the like. Now, with the threat of AI creating fraudulent content, some technologists are proposing “personhood credentials” to thwart incursions and impersonations. From the MIT Technology Review story: Personhood credentials work by doing two things AI systems still cannot do: bypassing state-of-the-art cryptographic systems, and passing as a person in the offline, real world. To request credentials, a human would have to physically go to one of a number of issuers, which could be a government or other kind of trusted organization, where they would be asked to provide evidence that they’re Read More ›
The ‘Gender-Industrial Complex’ Makes Billions Annually
A new report produced recently by the American Principles Project sheds light on financial incentivesThe report discusses long-term health risks and malpractice issues, demonstrating how the conjoining of big profits and radical ideology is a toxic mix.
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Boosters of Assisted Suicide Want It To Be Much More Common
Activists want assisted suicide normalized well beyond the terminally ill so that we become euthanasia enthusiastsAlmost every state that legalized assisted suicide has already liberalized their laws. It’s NOT just a teensy change in medical ethics.
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Medical Journal Pushes Training for Doctors on How to Kill
Chillingly, most of the doctors who participated in a small study on assisted suicide, and who prescribe poison as part of their job, like it.The push to increase assisted-suicide residency programs is designed to overcome most doctors’ reluctance to kill their patients.
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