Wesley J. Smith, John West Decry the Demonizers and Dehumanizers
Today’s ID the Future brings listeners the second half of a panel discussion at the 2022 Center for Science and Culture Insider’s Briefing. This portion begins with bioethicist and Discovery Institute senior fellow Wesley J. Smith making a surprising argument: His own field, bioethics, is at war with true medical ethics. Specifically, its most prominent figures—hailing from elite universities in the United States and Europe—are dedicated to emptying our medical culture of traditional ethical standards that protect human rights and are guided by a commitment to inherent human dignity. Some leading bioethicists see human beings as of no more inherent value than yeast. Smith stands athwart this anti-human trend and urges listeners to wake up and push back. Then John West, managing director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, spotlights those who demonize people who have resisted demands to be vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus, with some even calling for such people to be restricted to house arrest, or imprisoned. West also notes that many of those calling for such strong-arm tactics make no distinction between those who have and haven’t already had Covid-19, despite the fact that there is abundant scientific evidence that having had Covid-19 is a more effective form of vaccination than any vaccination shot. West decries the demonizing and bullying tactics he references, calling such behavior anti-science and anti-reason. He urges supporters of Covid vaccinations to meet the other side not with insults but with reasoned discourse and scientific evidence, and to be willing to listen to the other side.