Neanderthals Cared for Down Syndrome Children
Too often, we abort themSuch compassion is on the outs in these “enlightened” days. Indeed, it may now be that more babies with Down syndrome are killed in the womb than are born.
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European Court: Assisted Suicide Not a Human Right
The high court also ruled that refusing life-sustaining treatment is not the same thing as suicideThe court did not rule — as Glucksberg did not about states — that countries cannot legalize assisted suicide or euthanasia.
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Don’t Believe in “International Community”? You’re Hardly Human!
Who said that? Not a streetcorner doomsday crank. No, it’s the editor of a highly respected medical journalIn reality, the public’s loss of “belief” is the natural consequence of the international system’s failing and betraying those it was designed to serve.
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Tiny Dot of Human Brain Tissue Reveals Unexpected Insights
A speck of your brain can hold the data for 250 moviesApart from sheer complexity, the organization of the deep brain did not turn out to be what researchers had expected.
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Animals Using Healing Plants Is Old News, Says Classics Prof
Adrienne Mayor tells us that ancient and Indigenous peoples learned herbal medicine in part by observing animalsNo one knows how animal knowledge of this sort is transmitted. Genetics? Environment? Design in nature? It’s not new and it is still a mystery.
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COVID Felled Both Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci as Heroes
As Wesley J. Smith recounts, more honest researchers were discredited for saying things that Fauci and Collins later admitted to be trueAs we find out what really happened, the credibility of our public-health systems has been shattered and “Trust the science!” is becoming a joke.
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Woke Gobbledygook Now Passes for Erudition in Medical Journals
When science publications run policy bafflegab about healthcare reform instead of statements of hard facts about it— however dense they may be — science is the big loserThis article is reprinted from National Review with the permission of the author. Our most august medical journals are in danger of becoming more woke ideological-advocacy publications than disseminators of learned scientific studies. This is particularly true of the New England Journal of Medicine, which regularly publishes progressive gibberish pushing “equity” that is often nearly impossible to understand. Here’s the latest example. From “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize — Focusing on Health Care Equity”: We believe that health care–centric goals — equity in patient experience and clinical outcomes — should be the primary equity-related targets for clinicians, health care administrators, health plans, and payers. The health care sector is best positioned to improve the effectiveness and equity of the care it Read More ›
Orangutan heals wound using leaves — and triggers big media event
The orangutan is not the first or only animal to self-medicate. Birds and elephants do it tooIt will be interesting to see whether other orangutans in the area begin to imitate their new neighbor in using chewed akar kuning leaves to treat wounds.
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Stem Cells Might Cure HIV?
We must always be cautious about stories touting biotechnological curesWe must always be cautious about stories touting biotechnological cures. There is a lot of hype out there, but this seems genuine. An HIV/blood-cancer patient seems to have gone into permanent remission thanks to adult stem cells. From the Daily Mail story: A California man is on the cusp of being declared cured of HIV and blood cancer. Paul Edmonds, 68, who made international headlines last year when he shared his story, still has no traces of either condition five years after being given a transplant of cells that rid his body of both diseases. In a new article by the medical team who treated him, doctors said he was officially cured of cancer and two years away from being declared cured of HIV — when he will have gone Read More ›
How to Protect Children in the Digital Age
We must empower parents to help their children navigate the digital landscape.It has become apparent to many across our country that if we truly care about the futures of the next generation, we must act now to find a solution that will reduce the negative impacts of social media while keeping the positives intact.
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Are Near-Death Experiences Just Another Branch of Research Now?
We should hope so because there are a number of interesting allied research areas that would be better studied without preexisting prejudice against NDEsIn a discussion at Psychology Today, a philosopher notes that her dissertation supporting the reality of near-death experiences was received without hostility.
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Confronting IVF: Human Embryos Are Persons With a Right to Life
We humans are persons even when we are non-sentient and dependent on othersIVF is the industrial manufacture of human beings. The right to life of the embryo is a bulwark against dehumanization for all.
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Neuroscientist: Human Brain More Complex Than the Models Show
The weird “homunculus” — the way the brain maps the body — was pioneer neurosurgeons’ best guess nearly a century agoWe shouldn’t be surprised if the brain is more complex than could be known earlier. Most modern research into human beings is turning out that way.
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Are IVF Human Embryos “Children”? A Recent Court Decision
Neurologist Steven Novella claims that the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that they are “children” under the law “essentially referenced god”The ruling not only did not reference God, it was meticulously based on precedent. So those who seek to remove protection from IVF embryos must lobby for that.
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Near Death: Why Corroborated NDEs Can’t Just Be Explained Away
In some cases, Gary Habermas recounts, patients who had NDEs while in a state of clinical death report dates and numbers that are later found to be accurateMaterialist explanations for near-death experiences are much less satisfactory than simply accepting that the mind can act independently of the brain
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Near-Death: What People Learn When They Are (Briefly) Dead
In this excerpt, Prof Gary Habermas reports that sometimes the returned experiencer says that someone else has died — but the official news only comes laterFor reasons that are not yet clear, blind people can see during a near-death experience and details have been confirmed. Habermas relates some cases.
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Prof: There’s a Growing Number of Verified Near-Death Experiences
Gary Habermas notes more than 110 NDEs where experiencers’ detailed reports of what they saw when they were flatlined have been corroborated laterIt’s exceedingly unlikely, Prof. Habermas argues, that all these cases result from misperception deception, coincidences, or mistakes.
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Prehistoric Children with Down Syndrome Were Valued, Burials Show
The six found so far from one culture, identified by DNA evidence, did not live long but they were buried with grave goodsToday, when children with Down syndrome can grow up, they can display remarkable abilities, as the story of the Edmonton Oilers’ Joey Moss shows.
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Palliative Care Doctor: What Dying Feels Like
Although a dying person tends to spend more and more time asleep or unconscious, there may be a surge of brain activity just before deathFifty years ago slick commentators expected to explode myths about the soul or the hereafter but today, NDEs and terminal lucidity are serious research topics.
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Book Banning Today: Silently … Not Like in the Old Days
Traditional anti-book banning groups are simply not where the action is and maybe don’t want to beLast week we looked at the way censorship in the age of the internet is typically invisible. It’s not the police raiding bookstores; it’s — for example — sudden downranking of posts so that information that might have reached millions of people reaches only dozens. Constantly suppressed, it can’t go viral. We can see the change more clearly if we look at the difference between how books (and other information) used to get banned and how they get banned today. Book banning before the internet When the word “book bans” is used today, it usually means something different from what it meant even a few decades ago. Ulysses, a groundbreaking work by Irish novelist James Joyce (1882–1941) was indeed banned Read More ›