Humanize | Page 5 | Human Exceptionalism

Cows on Farm. Black and white cows eating hay in the stable.

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May 25, 2021
Animal Welfare}

PETA Wrong Again: Milk Is Good for Your Heart

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May 25, 2021
Animal Welfare}

PETA has one ideology: Animals are morally equal to people. It has one goal: No human ownership or instrumental use of animals. No exceptions. Read More ›

The symbol of the transgender in hands on a cardboard plate, covering (hiding) the face.

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May 24, 2021
Transgenderism}

No NEJM: Blocking Puberty in Gender-Dysphoric Children Is Not Settled Science

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May 24, 2021
Transgenderism}

Certain issues have been deemed by our betters among the elite as undebatable. One is climate change. But the fervor over that issue pales next to the attempt to prevent open debate about the propriety and safety of blocking the puberties of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Read More ›

Operating oil and gas well profiled on sunset sky

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May 23, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

The IEA’s Plan to Destroy Freedom and Save the Planet

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May 23, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

If you liked gas lines after the Colonial Pipeline was shut down by a hacking—or if the rolling blackouts last summer in California were your idea of fun—you will love what the international global warming warriors at the International Energy Agency have planned for us. Read More ›

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May 19, 2021
Abortion}

Richard Dawkins: ‘Wise and Sensible’ to Abort Babies with Down Syndrome

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May 19, 2021
Abortion}

When eliminating suffering because society’s first priority — instead of protecting innocent human life — it very easily metastasizes into eliminating the sufferer. And the suffering need not even be that of the person eliminated, but of family or society. Utilitarianism always leads to justifying killing. Read More ›

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May 18, 2021
Human Rights}

The Attack on Religious Liberty is an Attack on All Our Freedoms

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May 18, 2021
Human Rights}

More than two hundred years ago, the Founding Fathers changed the world by imbedding the fundamental human right to religious freedom in the Constitution. That right now hangs by a thread. Read More ›

Lake Shasta Lowest Water Level in Decades

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May 13, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

Another California Drought with No New Reservoirs

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May 13, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

Drought and monsoon are chronic and predictable contrasting California weather patterns. Now, it’s drought time again. Read More ›

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May 11, 2021
COVID-19}

CDC Misleads: Calls .01 Percent Chance of Infection, ‘Less Than 10 Percent’

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May 11, 2021
COVID-19}

The CDC has published a technically true — but profoundly misleading — statistic about the chance of outdoor infection. Read More ›

vial, covid-19, coronavirus vaccine ampoule, bottle for injection with syringe

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May 10, 2021
COVID-19}

Stealing Vaccine Patents Would Be a Big Mistake

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May 10, 2021
COVID-19}

Patent protection is crucial to the free-market system and essential to continuing medical innovation. Whatever immediate benefit might be derived by stealing the vaccine would ultimately be more than offset by the new drugs never brought to market and vaccines not invented. Read More ›

Gavel and Stethoscope on Gradated Background

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May 10, 2021
Health Care}

HHS Interpretation of ‘Discrimination Based on Sex’ Shows Urgency of Defeating Equality Act

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May 10, 2021
Health Care}

Today, HHS announced it was reversing the Trump rule that defined “sex” as biological in order to forbid “discrimination” in health care based on sexual identity and orientation. Read More ›

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May 3, 2021
Bioethics}

Jahi McMath Was Not Brain Dead

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May 3, 2021
Bioethics}

Readers may recall the sad case of Jahi McMath out of Oakland, Calif. In 2013, Jahi experienced a severe bleeding event after throat surgery and a subsequent cardiac arrest. She was successfully resuscitated, but her brain was catastrophically injured from loss of oxygen. Doctors at Oakland Children’s Hospital declared her brain dead and announced plans to remove Jahi from life support. Read More ›