Wesley J. Smith

It is interesting how technology has the power to create false intimacy.  I have more than 700 friends on Facebook!  I Tweet with the best of them. And now, a Japanese scientist is creating a machine that one day may allow people to “French kiss” over the Internet.  . . . . Continue Reading »

Scientific American has a piece out trying to explain why people “don’t trust scientists.”  I think the very topic illustrates part of the problem.  Hubris.  Those in the Politicized Science community—and Scientific American is part of that . . . . Continue Reading »

Are you kidding me? China murders its condemned and religious prisoners—as in Falun Gong—for their organs, which are then sold for tens of thousands of dollars to rich line jumpers from the West. You can get a liver in a month in China—for the right price. It is an insidious and . . . . Continue Reading »

The hypocrisy of many of the most famous proponents of GWH has helped destroy the credibility of global warming generally.  Al Gore’s many houses and notorious uses of private jets, Barbra Streisand, you get the picture.  They talk the talk, but hardly walk the walk.Proponents of . . . . Continue Reading »

A good friend of mine was a good friend of the late, great philosopher, Eric Hoffer.  Hoffer is best known for his scathing criticisms of totalitarian ideologies, particularly the book True Believer.I am currently nudging in my noodle that radical enviromentalism and related ideologies are . . . . Continue Reading »

This is disgusting. CBSLA News has glorified an elderly woman selling suicide kits as “death with dignity.” From “91-Year-Old Grandma Sells Suicide Kits To Help Terminally Ill Die With Dignity”:Meet Sharlotte. Like a lot of grandmothers, she likes to keep busy. But while some . . . . Continue Reading »

I hesitate to go here because it is not intended to open up the huge political issue of labor relations.  But slavery and human trafficking are definite human exceptionalism issues, and so too, I think, is working people to the point of utter exhaustion, hopelessness, and despair.  Indeed, . . . . Continue Reading »

Certain elements of the assisted suicide movement obsess over suicide methods.  It’s really a death cult: Books are written.  Conventions held.   Suicide machines such as the “debreather” and “Exit Bag,” are invented.  And now, a fellow has . . . . Continue Reading »

The Court of Appeals reversed 2-1 Judge Royce Lamberth’s immediate injunction against NIH funding of ESCR. This changes nothing on the ground, as the original decision was already stayed. The reversal does not end the case, but returns it to Lamberth for further proceedings or trial. And then, . . . . Continue Reading »

Senator Jon Kyl quotes yours truly in a column criticizing the Independent Payment Advisory Board, about which I wrote in the Weekly Standard, could well become the cornerstone for a new and unaccountable bureaucratic state.  From Kyle’s column in the Arizona Capitol Times, . . . . Continue Reading »