Humanize | Page 2 | Human Exceptionalism

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July 31, 2021
Transgenderism}

AMA to Urge End of Sex ID on All Birth Certificates

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July 31, 2021
Transgenderism}

It is astonishing how the transgender moral panic has swept actual science aside. The American Medical Association Board of Trustees (BOT) just passed a resolution that will have the AMA lobbying to end the designation of sex in all future birth certificates. Read More ›

Solitary resin bee (Heriades crenulatus) approaches an insect hotel to bring yellow pollen of aster flowers to its nest in a hollow reed stalk. Female bee in flight with blurred background.

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 29, 2021
Animal Welfare}

Don’t Eat Insects! They Are Sentient

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July 29, 2021
Animal Welfare}

Human anti-exceptionalism must be opposed every time it rears its misanthropic head, no matter how seemingly fringe or unlikely. Failing to do so allows truly harmful ideas to germinate and grow. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 29, 2021
Bioethics}

It’s Not Just COVID: China’s Dubious Scientific Ethics

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July 29, 2021
Bioethics}

China has become the world capital of ethically dubious scientific research. Perhaps even that is too tactful. More accurately stated, China is the land where science ethics go to die. Read More ›

desperate man in silhouette sitting on the bed with hands on head

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 27, 2021
Transgenderism}

At Last! Establishment Pushback Against Puberty Blocking

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July 27, 2021
Transgenderism}

Opponents of puberty blocking can no longer be denigrated as supposed religious fanatics or transphobic haters. Hopefully, the ultimate beneficiaries of this sea change will be the children whose bodies will not now become fodder in the well-meaning but ultimately destructive name of “gender affirmation.” Read More ›

A transgender flag being waved at LGBT gay pride march

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 25, 2021
Transgenderism}

Finns Turn against Puberty Blockers for Gender Dysphoria

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 25, 2021
Transgenderism}

First, it was the Brits and then the Swedes. Now, the transgender moral panic is receiving more pushback from the Finns. Read More ›

Suwannee River, Gilchrist County, Florida

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 23, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

Granting ‘rights’ to water, nature could hurt Floridians in any number of ways

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 23, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

Petition gatherers will soon be trying to qualify one of the most radical constitutional amendments in Florida history for the ballot. The Florida Right to Clean Water initiative masks as a benign proposal to protect the state’s waters from pollution. In reality, the measure would explicitly grant human-type rights to H2O. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 22, 2021
Bioethics}

Ethicists Urge Teaching Critical Race Theory in Bioethics Education

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 22, 2021
Bioethics}

I have sometimes gotten in trouble among the bioethics crowd for claiming that their field is more of an ideological movement than a dispassionate discourse. But know this: When a bioethicist speaks, unless there is a modifier such as “conservative” or “Catholic” before the term, that person is almost surely a political progressive. Read More ›

Chinese flags on barbed wired wall in Kashgar (Kashi), Xinjiang, China.

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 21, 2021
Human Rights}

The US is Beginning to Look Like China

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 21, 2021
Human Rights}

President Joe Biden recently said that the world is witnessing a contest between “autocracy and democracy.” He’s right. But there is more irony in that statement than Biden may understand. We are certainly not a dictatorship like China, but to paraphrase the famous maxim of the cartoon character Pogo, “We have met the enemy and he is becoming us.” Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 20, 2021
Abortion}

Laurence Tribe Opposes Private Enforcement of Abortion Laws but Okays It for Animal Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 20, 2021
Abortion}

The Left always howls when the Right adopts its tactics. Take the idea that public policy should be enforced via private citizen civil litigation. Texas just passed such a law about abortion and the political Left is stomping its collective feet. Lefty law professor Laurence Tribe has co-authored a piece in the New York Times to complain. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 17, 2021
Conscience}

Medical Journal: Train Medical Students to Be Woke Social Activists

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July 17, 2021
Conscience}

There the New England Journal of Medicine goes pushing woke agendas again. This time, the extremely politically progressive medical journal has published an article urging that medical students be taught that left-wing social-justice engagement should be among their professional duties. Read More ›