Wesley J. Smith

I hesitate to bring up this very interesting essay by the Canadian writer David Warren, because it could be perceived as religious.  That would not be wrong, necessarily—I don’t know Warren’s religious views, if any.  But I see him as primarily focusing on cultural and . . . . Continue Reading »

Rationing—which is a direct and unavoidable consequence of single payer health care funding—pits patient groups against each other, each seeking to exclude others from part of the pie so they can get more.  It is a disturbing spectacle.  And media often take sides.A good . . . . Continue Reading »

We often hear the accusation that scientist and others, who don’t buy into the warming meme, are either on the take from big oil or have some other venal reason for standing against “the scientific consensus.”  But a recent opinion piece in the Washington Examiner shows that . . . . Continue Reading »

We have discussed here the drive within bioethics and transplant medicine to kill and harvest organs from people in a persistently unconscious condition.  We have discusses how euthanasia and organ donation are now coupled in Belgium.  And we have discussed how Jack Kevorkian, before . . . . Continue Reading »

A terrible serial child molester has undergone surgical castration as part of a plea deal to let him out of prison.  From the story:A 78-year-old Louisiana state prisoner was surgically castrated this week at a hospital in Baton Rouge as part of a plea deal in a child molestation case. The . . . . Continue Reading »

I would say “dead man walking,” but such political metaphors are verboten if one is perceived as right of center.  Nevertheless, as I predicted, Donald Berwick’s time as head of Medicare/Medicaid will end this year.Recap: Berwick is a vocal health care rationing . . . . Continue Reading »

Since when is keeping the desire to keep one’s mother nourished grounds for removing them from a say in her medical decision making?  When an immigrant family wants their mother to receive a feeding tube and the hospital no longer wants to be on the financial hook for providing it.  . . . . Continue Reading »

I believe in human equality, but that doesn’t mean we should not distinguish ourselves from each other regarding our societal functions.  I bring this up because a medical student named William W. Motley argues that doctors should give up their white coats.  It’s an interesting . . . . Continue Reading »

Environmentalism has taken on a distinctly anti human hue in recent years—which is why I got interested in discussing it here.  Latest example: We are supposedly calling a mass extinction event.  From the story:Mankind may have unleashed the sixth known mass extinction in . . . . Continue Reading »

The credibility of the global warming meme continues to sink.  We are often told by alarmist apologists that we rubes irrationally refuse to believe the “settled scientific fact ” of AGW.  But that is reductionist because there is much more to the issue than whether the earth . . . . Continue Reading »