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Syringe with anaesthetic drug - Propofol, ready for infusion.

Vermont Bill Would Allow Nondoctors to Prescribe Assisted Suicide

Initial assisted suicide laws are merely the launching pad for an ever-expanding prescribed death regime

“Strict guidelines” against abuse sell such laws to the public but they are never the ceiling of permissibility. The rules are loosened more and more.

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Montana Senate Passes Bill Outlawing Physician-Assisted Suicide

In a muddled legal situation, the bill declares assisted suicide to be contrary to Montana public policy, making a previous courtroom defense unavailable

Legislation like this must be carefully written because assisted-suicide activists frequently redefine terms and obfuscate crucial distinctions.

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Will We Starve Dementia Patients in Slow Motion?

There is a proposal on the table to barely feed — i.e., malnourish — dementia patients who have previously signed a directive

Proponents argue that the patient should be bound by the directive even if he wants to eat and drink; this softens the public up for death by lethal injection.

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Doctor vaccinating a senior woman

Anthony Fauci and Trust in Public Health: An Inside View

Ex-CDC director Robert Redfield explores the issue of trust in public health — and its loss — with Wesley J. Smith

FDA doesn’t want to release the safety data on the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines until 2026, Redfield says, because it may make people vaccine-reluctant.

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The Human Body From an Engineer’s Perspective

My late father was a naval engineer. There are fundamental ways an engineer must think about any designed system. Let’s apply them to the body

The design of the human body, as Your Designed Body (2022) shows, offers many times more complex challenges than those of a ship.

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Diverse group of children playing on swings at a colorful playground on a sunny day

Gender-Dysphoric Children Protected from “Gender-Affirming Care”

The American medical establishment is increasingly the fringe advocate on this issue

Associated Press, covering for the transgender lobby, is all yesterday’s news, akin to a million-year-old mosquito stuck in amber.

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Young Asia lady nurse giving Covid-19 or flu antivirus vaccine shot to senior male patient wear face mask protection from virus disease at health clinic or hospital office. Vaccination concept.

Former CDC Director Discusses the Covid Years: What Worked, Didn’t

Robert Redfield’s surprising interview with Wesley Smith shows that there was significant opposition within the agency to the vaccine mandates

He talks about how Americans were sometimes misinformed on critical issues like whether the vaccines prevent Covid.

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View of planet Earth with a medical mask on. Concep for world wide spread of Coronavirus desease

COVID: It’s Becoming Safe To Openly Admit the Facts

The days of “fact-checking,” aimed at getting everyone vaxxed, appear to be over. Just look at the significant recent admissions…

The CIA now admits that the lab leak theory of COVID’s origin is a good bet and vaccine injuries are beginning to be more openly discussed.

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young african scientist looking through a microscope in the laboratory about the vaccine she is working on.

Trump Withdraws from the World Health Organization

In recent years, the organization has been using its clout to impose woke cultural agendas on the world.

This article is reprinted from National Review with the permission of the author. President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) because of its Covid failings, allegations of being soft on China, and the disproportionate share of funding borne by the United States. There is even more wrong in how WHO leaders have wielded their influence. In recent years, the organization has not just been about promoting public-health internationally, but also in using its clout to impose woke cultural agendas on the world — including areas that have traditional moral values — and in seeking to construct an international technocracy. Item: WHO sought to force a radical abortion regime on the world by allowing abortion through the Read More ›

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What Canada’s Collapsing Health Care System Means

It means that people die who might have lived if they had access to health care

More than 15,000 people died in Canada in one year because they couldn’t access care in the country’s collapsing socialized health-care system.

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Syringe with anaesthetic drug - Propofol, ready for infusion.

Assisted-Suicide Death Ceremonies Becoming Normalized

I certainly believe we should all remember that we are going to die as a means of focusing our faith or concentrating on how to live better lives

By attending a suicide party or ceremony, we validate the decision and, in so doing, become complicit in that death.

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X and Y Chromosomes as male Chromosome concept for a human biology structure containing dna genetic information as a medical symbol for gene therapy or microbiology genetics research.

Basta! Italy’s Bioethics Committee Urges Blocking Puberty Blockers

It's becoming a trend and the United States may well follow suit

If Italy accepts the bioethics’ commission’s advice, it will join a growing list of countries that are taking steps to end the practice.

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The Lab Leak Theory for COVID’s Origin Is Accepted. So What Now?

Here at Mind Matters News, we have long favored the lab leak theory — even back in 2021 when powerful legacy media like the New York Times were smearing it

In most public emergencies, authorities attempt to stem the panic. But with COVID, it so often seemed that the panic was coming from the top. Why was that?

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Can Neuralink’s Brain Implant Control a Robotic Arm?

Controlling a robotic arm via thoughts might help people with quadriplegia to do daily tasks

This is a step forward, in terms of complexity, from Roland Arbaugh’s ability to control a cursor with his thoughts via an implant.

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A doctor examines a brain scan on a monitor in a hospital setting.

The Media Still Can’t Get Facts about Terri Schiavo Right

The Terri Schiavo case tipped this country’s morality. Before her death, people couldn’t believe we dehydrate cognitively disabled people to death. Afterward, a majority supported it

The Washington Post has now edited an article to correct a key misstatement I criticized, without admitting it. Journalism dies in darkness.

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New Zealand Study: ‘Dearth’ of Evidence for Puberty Blockers

Studies claiming that puberty blockers helped ease depression were found to be of very poor quality

Shame on the states that passed laws allowing courts to deny custody to parents who won’t allow their children to be subjected to this medical experimentation.

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Neuroscientist Seeks the First Spark of Human Consciousness

It's a challenge. Human consciousness is very hard to define for the purposes of this kind of research

If we have “prior models of how things ought to be” at birth, aren’t we already conscious?

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Vial With Pentobarbital Used For Euthanasia And Lethal Inyecion In A Hospital

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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Soul Survives Death? ER Doc Sam Parnia Faces Skeptical Questions

In discussion with Closer to Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Parnia stuck to his clearly defined evidence, avoiding religious digressions

Confirmation of post-death consciousness during trauma might seem a little thing. But in science persistent little discrepancies are often the ones that matter.

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Exceptionally zoomed macro images of neural cells in the human brain

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 wasted

Dementia 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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