Center on Human Exceptionalism

The mission of Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism is to affirm and uphold the intrinsic nature of human dignity, liberty, and equality. In resistance to a growing movement against unique human personhood, we aim to revitalize a commitment to the traditional Western view of human rights and human responsibilities — summed up by the term “human exceptionalism.” Read more

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Scientist Cuts Ties with “Nature” Over Ideological Bias

Wesley J. Smith
November 15, 2025
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Science Journals
Editors of many of the world’s top scientific and medical journals are destroying or — better stated, perhaps — have destroyed the public’s trust in scientific and medical leadership because these journals can no longer be deemed objective purveyors of truth. Nature and its associated science journals (Nature Portfolio), supposedly the most elite of the lot, are among the worst offenders. For example, in 2024 Nature endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in part because of her support for abortion. Nature also endorsed Biden in 2020. To say the least, blatantly engaging in partisan politics is not wise for a supposedly objective science journal. It isn’t just politics. Ideological bias can also skew what should be scientifically objective studies, …

Mass Delusion Is Interesting — Especially Among Opinion Leaders

Denyse O’Leary
November 14, 2025
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Human Exceptionalism

Inside the IVF Industry: The Hidden Costs of Creating Humans in a Lab and the Restorative Alternative with Emma Waters

Arina Grossu Agnew
November 13, 2025
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Bioethics

“Harm Reduction” Harms

Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2025
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Homelessness

China Jumps on the Transhumanism Train

Wesley J. Smith
November 10, 2025
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Transhumanism

Olivier Bonnassies and Brian Miller on the Scientific Evidence for God

Olivier Bonnassies and Brian Miller
November 10, 2025
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Olivier Bonnassies and Brian Miller on the Scientific Evidence for God

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Olivier Bonnassies and Brian Miller
November 10, 2025
The Epistle to the Hebrews tells us that “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” That isn’t science. It is religion, and these days, many have come to believe that never the twain shall meet. But what if the reality of God could be demonstrated scientifically? What evidence would it take? What would be the consequence? French author Olivier Bonnassies has co-authored an internationally bestselling book (400,000 books sold), recently translated into English, that grapples with these questions. In God: The Science, The Evidence, Bonnassies and Michel-Yves Bollore argue that science is in the midst of a “great reversal” in which the supposedly incompatible realms are becoming mutually reinforcing. Bonnassies is a …

Michael Grunwald on How Factory Farms Can Save the Planet

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Michael Grunwald
October 27, 2025
Mark Twain is generally credited with the quip, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” The same can’t be said about climate change, which has become one of our most contentious and complicated public policy controversies. It’s also divisive. According to a recent Gallup Poll, sixty-two percent of those polled worry about climate change a great deal or a fair amount. Thirty-eight percent worry about warming just a little or not at all. What to do about it causes further disagreement, even among those very concerned about a warming climate. The question of how to best balance the use of fossil fuels and renewable energy sources takes up most of these debates, an issue for another day. But there are also disagreements about how to …

Michael Egnor M.D. and Denyse O’Leary on Evidence for the Existence of the Soul

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Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary
October 14, 2025
The existence of the human soul is usually described as a matter of faith unprovable by science. But is that true? What if evidence exists that we each do indeed have souls and even, that life continues after death? Whether we have souls and what happens to us after death — obliteration, reincarnation, heaven, hell — is a question about which humans have obsessed for as long as we have records of our existence. Indeed, it may be the ultimate question, for as a suicidal Hamlet laments in Shakespeare’s most immortal soliloquy: To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause… Wesley’s guests on today’s program respond …

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