Wesley J. Smith

Let’s take a moment away from our usual fare to honor my friend and mentor, Ralph Nader, for the incredible improvements made in auto safety since he jump started the campaign to save lives with his seminal book,  Unsafe at Any Speed.  Ralph isn’t solely responsible for these . . . . Continue Reading »

Whilst in France, I posted about a devastating take down of GWH chief propagandist Al Gore by the noted political scientist Walter Russell Mead. He has now added two more parts to his critique. From “The Failure of Al Gore, Part Deux:”Gore’s failures are not just about . . . . Continue Reading »

Scientific American (of all places) has an article boosting human exceptionalism on the cognitive front.  Rather than our smarts being merely the same as that of animals, only more, our intelligence is of a different kind.  From “The Mind,” by Mark Hauser:But if our shared . . . . Continue Reading »

When I think about the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, what words come to mind?  Well, there’s “arrogance.”  “Hubris” also works.  “Mismanagement” is on all fours, as we say in the law.  “Spendthrift.” . . . . Continue Reading »

What a scam the medical marijuana movement turned out to be.  Sold originally as a way to allow the relatively few to obtain cannabis that can clearly ameliorate symptoms—such as loss of appetite in AIDS and cancer and relief from nerve pain caused by diabetes—it ended up being . . . . Continue Reading »

A peer reviewed paper admits that surface temps haven’t warmed in the last decade. From “Reconciling anthropogenic climate change with observed temperature 1998–2008,” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:Given the widely noted increase in the . . . . Continue Reading »

Mark Oppenheimer, the “Beliefs” columnist for the NYT, had a big cover story in yesterday’s magazine that approvingly discussess the views of sex columnist Dan Savage re the propriety of consensual adultery. Here is the link . For those interested in my views, over at Secondhand . . . . Continue Reading »

I have noted here on more than one occasion that we are in the midst of a coup de culture that seeks to supplant the Judeo/Christian philosophical underpinning of society with one that combines explicit utilitarianism, open support for hedonistic indulgence, and a “faith” founded neo . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare will be disastrous for Medicare recipients. $500 billion came out of the program to help make Obamacare appear (through smoke and mirrors) to be fiscally responsible. Worse, it established the anti democratic and bureaucratically unaccountable quasi Star Chamber known as the Independent . . . . Continue Reading »

The modern hospice movement began in the United Kingdom, thanks to the calling and energies of the late, great medical humanitarian, Dame Cecily Saunders. But now, a disturbing report appeared in the Telegraph indicating that tens of thousands of dying patients do not receive adequate palliative . . . . Continue Reading »