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SHS Has Moved by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Secondhand Smoke was asked by First Things to be part of its family of blogs as the journal moves forward to create a more dynamic and varied web presence. That seemed the rig ... Read on »

Check Out the New Secondhand Smoke Look by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The transition of SHS to the First Things family of blogs will soon be upon us. To see what it will look like, you can go to FT's new home page --still only partially construc ... Read on »

UK Doctors Should Put NHS in Proper Order Before Enlisting in Fight Against "Global Warming" by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Calling global warming, "our era's cholera," a UK greenie named Muir Gray is urging doctors to get involved in stopping climate change (as if they don't already have ... Read on »

Persona Non Grata People May Hold Key to Cance Cure by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Well this is ironic: People with Down syndrome--against whom a concerted pogrom is being waged to wipe off the face of the earth via genetic testing and eugenic abortion or in ... Read on »

Biological Colonialism "Comedic Tour de Force" by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Secondhand Smokette and I went to a Barnes and Noble this morning and I stumbled upon a new book: Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My B ... Read on »

First Washington Legal Assisted Suicide: Compassion and Choices Immediately Issues Press Release by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The first Washington State legal assisted suicide has happened. C and C, of course, promptly issued a press release. From the story: The woman, Linda Fleming, 66, of Sequim, W ... Read on »

Right of Medical Conscience to Go to Court by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics In Louisiana, a nurse who was demoted for refusing to participate in dispensing the morning after pill due to religious objections, has won the right from the state supreme co ... Read on »

Legislation Proposed in Canada for Suicide on Demand Assisted Suicide by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics More proof--as if it were really needed--that the assisted suicide movement believes in death on demand for any non transitory physical or mental condition perceived by the su ... Read on »

Media Again Misuse the term "Brain Death" by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Sigh. We have repeatedly discussed the sloppy language used by media to discuss crucial moral issues--which is important because of the power of lexicon to materially impact o ... Read on »

Gallup "Moral Propriety" Poll Generally Supports Human Exceptionalism by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Gallup has issued its annual poll on what Americans think are morally appropriate behaviors, some of which deal directly with the issues about which we grapple here at SHS, an ... Read on »

Gallup Poll on What is "Morally Acceptable" Reflects Significant Concern for Animals by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Human exceptionalism is not only about human rights, but also human duties, including never using human beings as mere objects and the need to treat animals properly and human ... Read on »

Oklahoma Funds Science and Stem Cell Ethics by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The Oklahoma Legislature having voted unanimously to outlaw all human cloning--still no word on what the governor will do with the bill--state bureaucrats are now putting $5.5 ... Read on »

Politicized "Science" Advocates Want to "Shut Down" Dissenting Voices by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics This blog does not get into the specifics of global warming, but it does discuss how science is being corrupted by politics--mostly from the left--transforming the method into ... Read on »

Outsourcing of Ethics: Biological Colonialism Approved by FDA by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Cynical me believes that if this rule had come down when Bush was president, the media would have been all over it--although I am sure he wouldn't have been aware of it any mo ... Read on »

SHS Funnies by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Can you find SHS in this clever cartoon? Read on »

Assisted Suicide as a "Prophylactic" Against Future Suffering by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The media repeatedly pound home the false meme that assisted suicide is only about people diagnosed with a terminal illness. True, some American activists make that argument. ... Read on »

"Happiness Inequality" and the Politicization of Science by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics A Pew Poll measuring the "happiness" of the American people is out, and good news for me, people get happier as they age. But that is not why I brought it up. Rather ... Read on »

Update: 13-Year Old Isn't Father: 15 year-Old Is by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Alfie Patten, the 13-year-old boy who made a such a big, hand wringing splash in the UK by claiming to have fathered a child with his 15-year-old girlfriend--who was sleeping ... Read on »

Nietzsche Opposed Human Exceptionalism Too by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The nihilism unleashed by Nietzsche has caused more harm and suffering than can ever be measured. It turns out that much of the themes of anti-human exceptionalism we see toda ... Read on »

Transplant Community Should Stop Blaming Others About Public's Doubts About Organ Donation by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics A poll has come out about the public's attitudes toward organ donation that allegedly shows us as ignorant and unduly distrustful of the system. I think this requires a closer ... Read on »

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