Deducting Face Lifts in Brazil Devolves Medicine Into Mere Life Style Enablers

by Wesley J. Smith

I worry about the devolution of medicine from a healing profession into a lifestyle, on demand, technocratic enabling guild.  We see it all around us. Octomom, for example, wasn’t infertile.  The IVF she wanted had nothing to do with medicine in the sense of helping her overcome a . . . . Continue Reading »

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Of Mice and Men (and Other Chimeras)

by Joe Carter

The French writer Vercors (Jean Bruller) begins his novel, You Shall Know Them , just after Douglas Templemore injects his infant son with strychnine chlorhydrate. Although anguished by the killing, the father had planned the act even before the child had been sired. It was his attempt to save the . . . . Continue Reading »

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