A number of outlets are reporting this week on a new survey that reveals a wariness among American adults toward biotechnologies that can be used for enhancement purposes. The survey of 4,700 adults also involved six focus...
Read More1. Euthanasia Expansion If you need any evidence that the arguments in support of euthanasia or assisted-suicide are specious, read this story. A young woman in the Netherlands chose euthanasia by lethal injection. What was her...
Read MoreThe Gray Matter Brigade is at it again — pushing artificial means of “moral enhancement” to improve the behavior of the human race. Part of the meme is to become extraordinary without having to earn it through...
Read MoreIt has been coming for some time, but the top voices in bioethics — by which I mean those who inhabit the top floors of the ivory tower — are almost all blatant eugenicists. That sure is from whence the first...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The current Bioedge links to a story that I find intriguing. A society of cosmetic surgeons in the UK would like to see advertising for procedures such as breast implants...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC This is funny, given our recent conversation about bioethicist Julian Savulescu’s support for “morally enhancing” people through drugs or implants....
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBCWhen I heard immortality researcher Aubrey de Gray make the hubristic claim that funding his work to end human death was more important than funding health care for...
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