What happens when influence is exercised without restraint and conspiracy replaces evidence?

In today’s episode of Bioethics Babe, I’m joined by Simone Rizkalla, Catholic educator, speaker, writer, and host of the Beyond Rome podcast to examine the controversy surrounding Candace Owens and Erika Kirk, not as internet drama, but as a serious ethical case study.

This conversation explores the cost of conspiracy thinking, the moral responsibilities that come with large platforms, and how misinformation, reputational harm, and reckless speculation threaten human dignity, truth, and community trust in the digital age.

We ask hard questions:

• Are influencers ethically obligated to verify claims before amplifying them?
• When does “just asking questions” cross into moral harm?
• How does conspiracy thinking damage individuals, communities, and our shared ability to reason?
• What does Christian moral theology say about truth-telling, scandal, and bearing false witness online?
• Can influence itself become unethical when it’s used carelessly or abusively?

This episode goes beyond the culture war to examine the bioethics of influence, the psychology of conspiracy narratives, and what justice, accountability, and repentance look like when harm is done publicly.

If you care about truth, integrity, and ethical leadership in media, this conversation matters.

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What’s really happening to women and girls in China?

In this episode, I sit down with Reggie Littlejohn, Yale-trained attorney and founder of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, to expose what many experts call the greatest crime against women in the world. Women’s Rights Without Frontiers is a global coalition fighting to end forced abortion, gendercide, and sexual slavery in China. Reggie is widely recognized as an international expert on China’s One-Child Policy—now the Three-Child Policy.

Reggie is also the founder and president of the Anti-Globalist Alliance, an international counterforce to the Great Reset, and the co-founder of the Sovereignty Coalition, a non-partisan movement dedicated to defending U.S. national sovereignty and personal medical freedom against threats both foreign and domestic.

For decades, the Chinese Communist Party has enforced population control through forced abortion, gendercide, coercive sterilization, and relentless surveillance. Reggie Littlejohn has spent years documenting these abuses, testifying before U.S. Congress eight times, briefing parliaments around the world, building a secret rescue network inside China to help women and baby girls survive, and becoming one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most hated and outspoken critics.

In this conversation, Reggie reveals:

• How her childhood shaped her sense of justice
• How China’s One-Child Policy — now the Two- and Three-Child Policy — is still enforced through coercion
• The hidden reality of sex-selective abortion and China’s “missing girls”
• How she helped build a secret rescue network inside China
• How women are monitored through AI, surveillance, and social-credit systems
• Why China’s demographic collapse is fueling human trafficking and instability
• How the same surveillance tools perfected in China by the CCP are now being discussed globally

This is not just a story about China. It’s a warning about what happens when governments dictate who gets to live and who gets to die.

If you care about human rights, women’s dignity, medical freedom, and the future of liberty, this is a conversation you need to hear.

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In this episode, pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Quentin Van Meter reveals the truth behind one of the most controversial practices in modern medicine: the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on children with sexual identity confusion. He also outlines the disturbing legacy of John Money, the man whose unethical experiments helped launch today’s gender ideology.

With over four decades of clinical experience, including training at Johns Hopkins and service in the U.S. Navy, Dr. Van Meter explains how chemical and surgical interventions on children with sexual identity disorder swept through pediatrics despite a lack of scientific evidence, how clinics rapidly adopted irreversible interventions, and why so many doctors feel pressured to “affirm” rather than question.

Dr. Van Meter shares:

• Why puberty blockers were never designed for interventions on children with sexual identity disorder
• How blocking healthy puberty is not a harmless “pause button”, but disrupts brain development, bone density, and fertility
• The irreversible harms caused by cross-sex hormones
• The tragic story of the Reimer twins and John Money’s abusive and unethical experiments
• Why Money’s disproven theories still influence today’s gender clinics
• The medical, ethical, and psychological fallout he has seen firsthand
• Why so many children presenting with distress about their sexual identity have underlying trauma
• What true compassion looks like in treating kids with sexual identity distress

He also recounts personal stories from his medical career, including the moment he realized John Money’s practices were deeply unethical, the pressure physicians face inside academic institutions, and why he believes history will judge this moment like other dark chapters of medical experimentation. Dr. Van Meter also shares what he believes parents and clinicians urgently need to know before making irreversible medical decisions for children.

If you want to understand how unproven theories take over mainstream medicine, and what it takes for courage, ethics, and science to prevail, don’t miss this episode.

Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussion of medical trauma, unethical human experiments, child sexual abuse, and irreversible medical interventions that may be difficult for some listeners. Please use discretion and take care while listening.

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