Category: Culture & Ethics
Save Your Brain: Skip Luc Besson’s Fantastical Lucy
It’s a complete myth that humans use only 10 percent of our brains. That’s just one problem with this blockbuster hit.
No "Carrots," Please: Taking Pride in V-Word’s "Unrepentant Bigotry"
I am on a rather lonely campaign to make the v-word — "vegetable" — as unacceptable as the n-word in describing human beings.
Describing Joan Rivers: Human Beings Are Neither Animals Nor Are They Vegetables
We need to stop using the v-word to describe our brothers and sisters with profound cognitive disabilities.
Animals Can Be "Victims" but Are Not Persons
Contrary to wishful thinking by activists, an Oregon Supreme Court decision is fully consistent with human exceptionalism.
Robots to Kill Humans to "End Suffering?"
Pay attention to debates about euthanasia, health-care rationing, transhumanism, animal rights, radical environmentalism — and other "war on humans" agenda items.