Wesley J. Smith

Global Warming Hysteria frequently exhibits an alarming authoritarian streak—oft discussed here.  And now an attempt by East Anglia University to stifle a GWH critic has failed.  From the column, “Climatgate U Loses Bid to Stifle Critic,” by Lawrence Solomon:The . . . . Continue Reading »

A former GWH believer named David Evans changed his mind some years ago and now says that the human responsibility for global warming is minimal, and that the warming industry is steeped in ideology after the expected scientific findings didn’t work out.  He once advised the Australian . . . . Continue Reading »

The NHS has gone from rationing the most expensive for whom to care and the elderly, to a general withholding of care to people with regular conditions. From the story:Growing numbers of patients are being denied treatment for conditions such as loss of sight, arthritis and infertility as the NHS . . . . Continue Reading »

I am confused. A man named Jeffrey Locker wanted to kill himself and paid Kenneth Minor to help do the deed. His reason? He was broke and he wanted the life insurance to help his family. And yet despite having the consent of Locker to be made dead, Minor is going to the penitentiary for 20 years. . . . . Continue Reading »

Several years ago, I wrote about the woeful decline in the taking of the Hippocratic Oath, and the pabulum replacements that really did not require new doctors to pledge anything very meaningful at all.  From my 2006 piece, “Harm Done,” in NRO:Unfortunately, we live in an age when . . . . Continue Reading »

I often hear that people are not exceptional, that we are just like animals and that any morality we develop is merely a result of natural selection forces.I don’t believe that.  I believe we have—to a degree, not absolutely—surmounted evolution, which is undirected, by . . . . Continue Reading »

Dr. Diane Meier was once a vocal proponent of assisted suicide.  She is one of the nation’s top palliative care experts—along with Dr. Kathleen Foley.  Here are her credentials: she was a winner of a McArthur (genius) Fellowship and Director of the Center to Advance Palliative . . . . Continue Reading »

The governor of Idaho has signed the legislation making assisted suicide a felony.  Excellent news.  That should take the likely planned lawsuit by C & C off the table.  Congratulations to all . . . . Continue Reading »

I warned and I warned, here at SHS, in speeches, on the radio: Obamacare would spawn 100,000 pages of regulations.  That’s because we no longer pass laws that govern, we pass laws that serve as skeletons for the bureaucrats to create the rules that actually exert the details of . . . . Continue Reading »

For years, PETA has attacked the Australian wool industry for engaging in mulesing, a procedure in which the skin of Merino lambs (Merino sheep have the best wool) is stripped near the anus so that when the wound heals, it does not have wool or wrinkles. This isn’t to be cruel, but to prevent . . . . Continue Reading »