World political leaders like Donald Trump should be much more concerned about these developments; they could easily leap out of the lab.
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At one time, it was the less well-informed people who trusted science less. But repeated episodes like the Covid Crazy will mean that the better informed people will trust less.
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Siegel’s essay at Big Think can have one very desirable result: It is a good, though unwitting, summary of attitudes that must change if public trust in science is to be improved.
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Science writer Matt Ridley offers some helpful information about why the “furin cleavage site” was a smoking gun for top scientists for a lab origin for Covid.
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Fauci’s most revealing 1,141 pages are not a personal diary; despite all the personal material, he was writing at work on a government computer.
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A recent book, “Sex Beyond “Yes,” provides evidence for the estrangement of bioethics from majority opinion.
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Once euthanasia starts, it picks up steam year by year by year as hastened death becomes normalized.
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In the United States, the change plays out as a boom in centenarians. The population of persons aged 100 or more grew by 50% between 2010 and 2020.
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Killing to harvest organs is now sufficiently mainstream for NPR to have featured one of the latest proposal’s authors in a respectful interview.
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The earliest Christian ethical writing dating from about 100 — the Didache — explicitly condemns “murder” as profoundly sinful.
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Part of the reason we don’t know exactly how anesthesia works is surely that we do not know what consciousness is (there are at least 325 theories out there).
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Neurologist Brian Edlow hopes that brain–computer interface technology like Neuralink will help researchers communicate with covertly conscious people.
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Bioethicist Brandon Ambrosino reacts to the physicians’ protest and promotes the very de-professionalization that the original article decried.
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The moral stigma against suicide prevents many deaths — which is why assisted suicide activists don’t call it suicide.
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Biotech companies agree to ban or voluntarily refrain from doing that which can’t yet be done but conduct the very experiments necessary to learn how to do it.
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Neither shortage of oxygen nor the presence of relatives account for the sudden release from confusion or dementia.
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From what the story discloses, the primary focus of the medical team became the 3-D planning and preparation for the surgery after the killing.
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Serious research on terminal lucidity will immensely damage the sort of materialism that Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker champions.
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Some will ask, if we can artificially gestate fetuses to that stage, why not harvest them for organs? That has already been proposed. Repeatedly.
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People with disabilities know that. once assisted suicide becomes normalized, the categories of killable people will expand well beyond the terminally ill.
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