Frightening Abuses of Science with Wesley J. Smith

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

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🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Experiments on the living unborn. Organ harvesting. Reckless biotech. Radical environmentalism. These are not horror stories playing at your local movie theater. They're playing out in labs, hospitals, and institutes across America. On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with bioethicist Wesley J. Smith about frightening abuses of science being done in the name of progress. In this unnerving exchange, Smith discusses examples of biotechnology that are advancing faster than our ethical considerations, including synthetic human embryos, genetic engineering, and fetal farming. He unpacks recent attempts by environmental activists to give rights to non-living things like rivers and oceans. He explains the difference between animal rights and animal welfare, while exposing the animal rights campaign as an anti-human movement that inhibits human flourishing. Smith also discusses the latest fronts in the gender ideology crusade, and how the rush to affirm gender dysphoria in children is causing tremendous harm to our society. And before the nightmare ends, Smith explains the pernicious push from evidence-based medicine to "science-based medicine," a strategy that encourages censorship and totalitarian governance of the scientific enterprise. Source

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0:00.0	ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.1	Sometimes the most frightening things in life are not what we wake from, but what we wake to.
0:18.4	Welcome to your listeners and viewers to ID the future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott.
0:23.4	On this episode, bioethicist and author Wesley J. Smith takes us on a spine-tingling journey
0:29.0	through the shadows of science to shed light on some of the scariest abuses of science happening
0:34.6	right now in our world. Wesley is chair and senior fellow, the Discovery
0:38.6	Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism, where he hosts a podcast called Humanize. He is author of
0:45.0	more than 14 books on human dignity, liberty, and equality, the most recent being an updated
0:50.7	and revised edition of Culture of Death, the Age of Do Harm Medicine.
0:55.7	Wesley has been recognized as one of America's premier public intellectuals on bioethics by National
1:01.5	Journal and was honored by the Human Life Foundation as a great defender of life for his work
1:06.9	against suicide and euthanasia. He has appeared on more than a thousand TV and radio
1:11.6	programs, including national shows like ABC Nightline, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, CNN, Anderson
1:18.8	Cooper 360, and Fox News Network. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times,
1:25.0	The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the telegraph, Western Journal
1:29.2	of Medicine, the American Journal of Bioethics, and elsewhere. And when he finds the time,
1:34.3	he also writes regularly at humanized.t today, evolutionnews.org, and National Review. Wesley,
1:41.4	welcome to ID the Future. Thanks very much. Good to talk to you.
1:45.2	Well, today, we have the unfortunate task of revealing some of the ugliest and most frightening things being done in the name of science right now.
1:54.0	We're talking about misguided experiments, research, and policymaking, and about misleading and even malevolent rebranding, normalizing, and weaponizing
2:03.7	of the scientific enterprise done in the name of progress and equity and even emergency.
2:10.2	Our journey today is merely a brief survey of these many fearful developments, and we may indeed
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