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Handcuffed doctor. Medical crime concept, closeup

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October 14, 2020
Conscience}

Ideology in Science is Destroying Trust

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October 14, 2020
Conscience}

Science should never be tainted by ideology. After all, science isn’t supposed to be about political beliefs but is a powerful method for learning about and understanding the physical universe. Read More ›

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October 6, 2020
Human Dignity}

For the Young, Lockdowns Are Worse Than Coronavirus

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October 6, 2020
Human Dignity}

In July, Ezekiel Emanuel — the bioethicist and COVID adviser to Joe Biden — signed an open letter insisting that the country be locked down again — only this time, in an even more draconian manner than before, including significant restrictions on interstate travel. Read More ›

Gavel and Stethoscope on Gradated Background

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October 6, 2020
Conscience}

Science Journals Have Become Intensely Political

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October 6, 2020
Conscience}

I have related here on several occasions how intensely political supposedly objective science and medical journals have become. The New England Journal of Medicine pushes progressive politics all of the time, as just one example. So does Science, which for example, has endorsed the “nature rights” movement. Nature joined the crowd too in publishing an hysterical jeremiad against President Trump by Jeff Tollefson, its D.C.-based reporter. But if you read the lengthy attack, its most bitter complaints are about intensely believed political and policy differences, not actual examples of Trump being somehow “anti-science.” For example, construes every Trump action on COVID in the most negative light possible. He also attacks Trump’s immigration policy. From, “How Trump Damaged Science–and Why It Could Take Decades to Recover”: Trump has also eroded Read More ›

Dripping reagent into test tube with liquid sample, closeup. Laboratory analysis

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September 15, 2020
Animal Welfare}

Animal Testing Discovers New Antibody Component for Fight Against COVID

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September 15, 2020
Animal Welfare}

The animal-rights movement lies when it claims that research using animals offers no human benefit. But the propaganda is having an impact. According to Gallup, a whopping 39 percent of Americans believe that animal research is not moral, versus 56 percent who think it is. In 2019, only 51 percent found it moral. Read More ›

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September 4, 2020
Euthanasia}

Canadian Disabled Seek Euthanasia Because of Poor Social Services

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September 4, 2020
Euthanasia}

Disability-rights activists are some of the greatest and most effective opponents of assisted suicide/euthanasia, correctly identifying it as a form of discrimination. Read More ›

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July 6, 2020
Euthanasia, Human Exceptionalism}

The Deadly “Quality of Life” Ethic

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July 6, 2020
Euthanasia, Human Exceptionalism}

Something evil happened recently in Austin. Michael Hickson, a forty-six-year-old African-American man with quadriplegia and a serious brain injury, was refused treatment at St. David’s Hospital South Austin while ill with COVID-19. Read More ›

Doctor Injecting Patient With Coronavirus Vaccine

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May 26, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Dershowitz Wrong: Government Can’t Compel You to Take COVID-19 Vaccine

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May 26, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz has made quite a media stir by claiming that the government can force us all to receive COVID-19 vaccines if one is developed. But And the government certainly doesn’t have “the power to literally take you to a doctor’s office and plunge a needle into your arm.” Read More ›