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Coup de Culture Alert: Wanting to be "Extraordinary" Without Working for It by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics From time to time I have pointed out the sad yearning so many seem to feel that their lives would not seem so lacking if only they could somehow be extraordinary--without havi ... Read on »

SHS Funnies by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Pig learns from Zebra that transhumanism is a pipe dream: Secondhand Smokette insists this cartoon is really about me. I disagree! This picture of me on my Blackberry while ... Read on »

Why Things Are Spinning Out of Control by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics This video vividly explains how computer technology's geometric growth is profoundly changing the world--with results that may be beyond or ability to control. Secondhand Smo ... Read on »

SHS Funnies by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Sometimes the truth really hurts: Piraro's views are whacky but his daily cartoon is one of the best out there. This one really hit my funny bone. Read on »

Human Exceptionalism Requires That We Do Our Duty to Promote Animal Welfare by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics When the rulers of To the Source saw my piece "Homo Sapiens, Get Lost" in NRO about the the growing anti-humanism that is infecting the environmental movement, it gave them an ... Read on »

Mr. VIce President, Please Get a Grip About Swine Flu Pandemic by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Overall, I have been impressed by the Obama Administration's handling of the swine flu pandemic, which as these things go, does not appear to be Armageddon. (I am sure the Dee ... Read on »

Keeping Our Senses Of Humor in the Face of Swine Flu: A Matter of Human Exceptionalism by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics One of the great things about people is that we can find ways to find humor in almost all situations. Check out these photos of Mexicans wearing surgical masks due to the swin ... Read on »

Now It is the Eight Reasons to Unilaterally Withhold Care by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Yesterday, I wrote about futilitarian law professor and blogger Thaddeus Pope's "Seven Reasons That Might Justify Unilateral Refusal" of Medical Treatment, with my brief respo ... Read on »

Media Play Ginger Rodgers to Big Biotech Fred Astaire: Employ Yet Another Euphemism for Human... by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I can't remember an issue in which there was so much intellectual dishonesty or malpractice in media reporting than the embryonic stem cell/cloning debates--and that's saying ... Read on »

Countering "The Seven Reasons that Might Justify Unilateral Refusal " of Medical Treatment (Futile... by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Law professor Thaddeus Pope runs the Medical Futility Blog, the best such site dedicated to medical futility of which I am aware. He swings from the futilitarian side of the p ... Read on »

By Ignoring the Rational Arguments Made Against Assisted Suicide, Yale Medical Professor Argues... by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Some of our most formerly venerable medical journals are becoming increasingly radical. Critical Care Medicine, the journal for intensive care doctors, is a case in point. In ... Read on »

Pushing for Federal Funding of Human Cloning by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics "The scientists" used to tell us that all they want is leftover embryos for ESCR. That was never all they wanted, but the lie was a useful political tool to try and destroy th ... Read on »

NBC/MSNBC News: Despicable Character Assassins by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics NBC News and MSNBC have devolved from journalists into despicable character assassins. Readers of SHS and others will recall the fraudulent story pushed by the Left Web site t ... Read on »

Soylent Green is People: Proposal to Make and Store Embryos for Stem Cells by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics More proof in that embryonic stem cell research is not-- and never has been --about getting some use out of leftover IVF embryos that are due to be destroyed anyway. A serious ... Read on »

Obama Seduces Science Sector with Promises of Huge Bucks by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics President Obama must believe in the fabled money tree with all the currency we don't have that he is borrowing and spending. Now, he has told the National Academy of Sciences ... Read on »

Conscience Clause Poll by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Should medical professionals be protected by "conscience clauses?"( online surveys ) Read on »

The Coming Medical Conscription to Require Doctors to be Complicit in Assisted Suicides by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The day may be coming, and it might not be that far away, when doctors who are asked to help kill a patient--that is, to intentionally cause the patient's life to end-- will b ... Read on »

Extreme Sheep LED Art by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics This short video says a lot about human exceptionalism--imagine conceiving even doing this performance art much less pulling it off--the wonder of dogs, which we intelligently ... Read on »

Deep Ecologists Might Get Their Human Depopulation: Possible Swine Flu Pandemic by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The Deep Ecology Movement wants to reduce the human population to 500 million. The genocidal implications of this idea are obvious--although DEs usually say they would like to ... Read on »

Derek Humphry Has Another Teenage Suicide to Put as a Notch on His Book Final Exit by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics This has happened before and it will happen again. A teenager has apparently committed suicide using the death information contained in Derek Humphry's book Final Exit Who is ... Read on »

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