CategoryMedicine and Health
How a Split Brain Enables a Unified Mind Still Baffles Us
In the comments following Sean McDowell’s interview with neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, a viewer asked, are the parts of a split brain still really connected?
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
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
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
Here’s Neurosurgeon Mike Egnor on Sean McDowell’s Show
With a couple of revealing excerpts from the transcript
Brain vs. Mind: A Very Revealing Fact About Epileptic Seizures
I have treated thousands of patients with epilepsy. Seizures can result in a variety of unexpected behaviors and emotions. But let me tell you what they DON’T do…
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
Are People in a Persistent Vegetative State Mindless? Maybe Not
They often can and do think. Research in the area helps us understand the relationship between the mind and the brain better
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
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
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
Can One Person Really Have Two Different Consciousnesses?
The idea that split-brain surgery can create two separate minds is immortal — in science fiction
At NIH, Bhattacharya Hopes to Restore Open Discussion in Science
In a recent interview, he seemed surprisingly conciliatory to those who attempted to ruin his career over his dissenting views on Covid.
When Top People “Must Be Right,” Dissent Becomes Mental Illness
A healthcare historian looks at the history of the use of psychiatry to crush alternative viewpoints
Implant enables woman to control speech synthesizer with thoughts
The key benefit of the new system is that it is much faster than traditional methods, cutting the time from internal speech to audible speech to less than three seconds
Bioethicists Get Legacy of Terri Schiavo Death Wrong
Some bioethicists complain that her protracted starvation death has powered pro-life forces into political prominence
NYT on COVID: Not “Badly Misled.” One of the Worst Misleaders!
The Times writer smears legitimate doubt by associating it with unnamed questionable persons and causes — that works if people don’t know the story
AI in Biology: The Disease Connection — When Proteins Go Wrong
Some of the most crucial proteins for human health—the ones we need to understand most urgently—are the very ones that AI has the hardest time modeling