Tag: National Review

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
June 5, 2024

Categorized
Technocracy

Tagged
Health, National Review, Technocracy, Tobacco, Wesley J. Smith}

Tobacco and Technocracy

_{Is tobacco just the first villain to be punished by a growing technocracy that seeks to limit freedom?} _{Wesley J. Smith
June 5, 2024

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Technocracy}

I don’t smoke, but I am wary of efforts to prevent other people from so doing. Now, blue cities — and soon states, most likely — have hit upon a way to ban smoking known as “Tobacco Free Generation” (TFG). It’s Pretty Clever Allow people who can legally buy tobacco today to purchase it, but permanently outlaw the sale of tobacco products to people based on the date of their birth — even as they become adults — as described glowingly in the New England Journal of Medicine: The bylaw, passed by Brookline, Massachusetts, gradually phases out commercial tobacco by banning the sale of nicotine products to anyone born on or after January 1, 2000 (one of us cosponsored the bylaw). Read More ›

Aerial view of coal power plant high pipes with black smoke moving up polluting atmosphere at sunset.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
December 18, 2023

Categorized
Science

Tagged
Climate change, commercialism, Environment, National Review, science, The Lancet}

Medical Journal Crosses a Whole New Line

_{Is blaming commercialism for global warming genuine science? Or just ideology?} _{Wesley J. Smith
December 18, 2023

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Science}

The Lancet needs to go back to being a medical journal rather than a propaganda outlet for progressive politics. Read More ›

Group of people with posters protesting against climate change outdoors, closeup

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 5, 2023

Categorized
Science

Tagged
Climate change, ideology, lab, National Review, science, Wesley J. Smith}

More Ideological Alarmism in Yet Another Top Journal

_{Ideology continues to harm the scientific endeavor.} _{Wesley J. Smith
October 5, 2023

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Science}

I can’t think of anything more harmful to people’s respect for “science” than hysterical scientists in (say) lab coats. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 3, 2023

Categorized
Medicine and Health

Tagged
COVID 19 censorship, Medicine, National Review, science, transgenderism, Wesley J. Smith}

We Need to Keep Medicine “Evidence-Based”

_{A new approach seems to be arriving — so-called science-based medicine. What is the difference?} _{Wesley J. Smith
September 3, 2023

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Medicine and Health}

Trust must be earned, not imposed. Information gatekeepers can be wrong. The danger of censorship in the name of “science” is growing. Read More ›

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Peter Biles
Date
August 26, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, ChatGPT, Influencers, Instagram, National Review, social media}

National Review: Let AI Take Over Social Media Influencing

_{AI influencers are revealing how vapid social media really is} _{Peter Biles
August 26, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

We’ve recently commented on the AI influencer phenomenon, which seems to be taking social media by storm. With advanced AI imaging, more AI influencers are popping up, and they already look comparable to the likes of Kim Kardashian. The social media influencing world depends on primarily women selling their bodies for revenue. Instagram has tended heavily in this direction, and with the advent of OnlyFans, the temptation to flaunt oneself so provocatively is tangible for many. National Review writer Haley Strack thinks that the AI influencer horde will out-compete real-life influencers and eventually rule out the need for humans at all. She writes, Some criticize AI for giving young men another possibly perverse, sexual outlet online — but men who Read More ›

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Peter Biles
Date
August 6, 2023

Categorized
Education

Tagged
academia, Arts and Culture, Culture, John Locke, National Review, Politics, religion, The King's College, The West}

Don’t Censor Western Books

_{For thousands of men and women, the Western canon served as a lifeline} _{Peter Biles
August 6, 2023

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Education}

Today, people on the Left and Right worship politics. What if more conservatives put their wallets toward culture? Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
June 22, 2023

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
bioethics, Canada and Euthanasia, Daily Mail, Euthanasia, Medical Ethics, National Review, Wesley J. Smith}

Medical Association is “Neutral” on Assisted Suicide

_{This is a matter of the gravest ethical concern} _{Wesley J. Smith
June 22, 2023

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Ethics}

How in the world can a medical association be neutral on granting doctors a license to kill or assist the suicide of their patients? This is a matter of the gravest medical ethical concern, an action, remember, that was strictly proscribed 2,500 years ago in the Hippocratic Oath. Utter Cowardice But yield to the pressures of the activists is what the UK’s Royal College of Surgeons has done, in an act of utter cowardice based on a survey answered by only 19 percent of its members. From the Daily Mail story: The Royal College of Surgeons is no longer opposed to assisted dying and is now ‘neutral’, it has been announced. The organisation’s council members voted after discussing survey results, which showed an appetite for change, a Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
May 9, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics

Tagged
Abortion, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, Human exceptionalism, infanticide, National Review, Peter Singer, Princeton, transhumanism, Wesley J. Smith}

Abortion: Switching Off a Computer?

_{This is the kind of thinking that results from rejecting the intrinsic moral value of human life} _{Wesley J. Smith
May 9, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics}

This is the kind of thinking that results from rejecting the intrinsic moral value of human life. Princeton University bioethicist Peter Singer — who is most famous for secularly blessing infanticide — just compared abortion to turning off a computer. He first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value (which for him, as described below, need not be human). From the Yahoo News story: We asked internationally renowned moral philosopher Professor Peter Singer whether AI should have human rights if it becomes conscious of its own existence. While Professor Singer doesn’t believe the ChatGPT operating system is sentient or self-aware, if this was to change he argues it should be given some moral status. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 15, 2018

Categorized
Ethics, Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
Allum Bokhari, Blockchain, George Gilder, Life after Google (book), National Review, Tim Cook}

The true cost of “free” social media

_{It’s free but… are we? George Gilder points a way forward.} _{Denyse O'Leary
September 15, 2018

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Ethics, Machine Learning, Social Factors}

He thinks that expected massive increases in computing power will enable blockchain technologies that allow users to safely bypass the global data monopoly that Google and similar firms represent. Read More ›