Category: Culture & Ethics
To Throttle Human Thriving Is the Point of “Nature Rights”
Granting “rights” to nature — including geological features — profoundly undermines the concept of “rights” itself.
Woke Watch: The Ideological Transformation of Medical Journals
Now, the political alarm is over “planetary health,” which covers a lot of, er, ground.
When Did Humans Start Burying the Dead?
Only humans understand death as the inevitable and final reality for all mortal beings no matter what we do.
Euthanasia for Autism, Intellectual Disabilities in the Netherlands
“Helping people with autism and intellectual disabilities to die is essentially eugenics.”
Halloween Edition: A Look at Frightening Science with Wesley J. Smith
Biotechnology is advancing faster than our ethical considerations, including synthetic human embryos, genetic engineering, and fetal farming.