A Medical Ethics Professor’s Chilling Plan to Infect the World With a Meat-Allergy Disease

In the rarefied halls of Western Michigan University’s Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Professor Parker Crutchfield teaches medical ethics. One might expect such a role to instill reverence for human dignity, bodily autonomy, and the Hippocratic admonition to first do no harm. Instead, Crutchfield has authored arguments for covertly drugging the population to improve its “morality” and, more recently, for actively spreading a tick-borne disease to make people allergic to red meat. This is not satire. In the journal Bioethics, Crutchfield and co-author Blake Hereth published “Beneficial Bloodsucking,” which posits that if eating meat is morally wrong, then humanity...