Category: Bioethics

Bioethics

BLM Needs To Quit Culturally Appropriating German Philosophy!

Susan Scafidi, a law professor at Fordham University and author of "Who Owns Culture? Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law," defines cultural appropriation as follows: “Taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else's culture without permission. This can include unauthorized use of another culture's dance, dress, music,…
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Science Uprising Series

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BMJ: Medical Error Is Third Leading Cause of Death in US

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=278&v=KxUfPBhipLA[/embed]   Medical Error Is Third Leading Cause of Death in US Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease and cancer, according to findings published today in BMJ. As such, medical errors should be a top priority for research and resources, say authors…
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Want My Sex Back: Transgender people who regretted changing sex

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pxxBQm114k[/embed] See also: 76 Students In One School Came Out As Transgender… Is That News? Why the Transgender Movement Can’t Sustain Itself Transgender patients who regret changing gender are being BASHED as TRANSPHOBIC Hundreds Of Young Trans People Seek Help To Reverse Artificial, Damaging Changes Of Hormone Blockers FDA: Over…
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Philosophical Problem with the Brain Disease Model of Addiction: Epiphenomenalism

​The essay below so perfectly articulates my view on epiphenomenalism and its importance to psychology that I couldn't resist sharing it. (Epiphenomenalism is a self-referentially refuting concept.) Please give Steven Slate some traffic if you are interested in either Philosophy of Mind or Addiction: "Behaviorists believe that materialist determinism is…
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Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is ‘Mental Disorder;’ Sex Change ‘Biologically Impossible’

See also: Study: Nearly Four-Fifths Of "Gender Minority" Students Have Mental Health Issues By Michael W. Chapman | June 2, 2015 | 1:34 PM EDT Dr. Paul R. McHugh. (Photo: Johns Hopkins Medicine) (CNSNews.com) --  Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said…
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Beyond determinism and materialism, or isn’t it time we took consciousness seriously?

Locke, E. A. (1995). Beyond determinism and materialism, or isn’t it time we took consciousness seriously? Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 26(3), 265–273. BEYOND DETERMINISM AND MATERIALISM The author launches a devastating attack on materialism, behavioralism, epiphenomenalism, psychological determinism, etc. However, he does make some errors not critical to…
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Abortion Survivor Gives Powerful Testimony Before Congress

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHnaQiOxGfg[/embed] Most babies’ births are met with balloons and tiny embroidered socks, hugs and tears of joy. Not Gianna Jessen’s. During a congressional hearing Wednesday, Jessen, an abortion survivor, shared with members of Congress the heartbreaking story of her own birth -- a story that began when her mother, a 19-year-old college…
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Conservative Intellectual: Progressive Ideology ‘Dehumanizes The Population’

Conservative Intellectual: Progressive Ideology ‘Dehumanizes The Population’ [VIDEO] [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtvqv5nouZM[/embed] This English writer, prison doctor and psychiatrist has traveled the world, talked with the ordinary people elites avoid and warns America to stop its intellectual dishonesty to restore a healthy society. He thinks his own country is incentivizing the decline of…
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Movie Exposes Vicious Scientology Cult

Scientology also owns a drug rehab called Narconon whereby the "recovering addicts" have to do the most bizarre things while isolated from friends and family. The cult also has front groups that pretend to serve as a counseling center for those seeking help for addiction. HBO’s Scientology Exposé Going Clear…
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“Ecoscience” by John Holdren: Textbook of the Globalist Depopulation Effort

Must Read: John Holdren, Obama's Science Czar, says: Forced abortions and mass sterilization needed to save the planet Ecoscience in PDF. Source: Infowars: EcoScience: Authored in 1977 advocates for extreme totalitarian measures to control the population. One of the authors is John Holdren, Obama’s top science and technology advisor Click…
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Brandon Smith Gets It Right!

"Why I Will Not Submit To Medical Martial Law" Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.com, One of the most dangerous philosophical contentions even amongst liberty movement activists is the conundrum of government force and prevention during times of imminent pandemic. All of us at one time or another have had…
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Responding to Thomas Piketty

[youtube=http://youtu.be/UT3bFLmgDho] Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century How to respond to Thomas Piketty’s inequality alarmism The Piketty Fallacy Remarks on Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" Why I am not persuaded by Thomas Piketty’s argument Unequal to the Task Capital Punishment Picketty Misses the Point Are there problems with…
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Abortion Revisited

[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwFIEprF_9Y[/embed] [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuKYsvTNi1A[/embed] In 1973, Justice Harry Blackmun writing for the majority in Roe v. Wade stated: “We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this…
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