Wesley J. Smith

It is well known that Nazi “doctors”  engaged in horrendous medical experiments with concentration camp inmates.  They thought it was fine and right to do so because they believed they were working on so-called untermenschen, that is, humans of lesser value.  There is no . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the terrible things about euthanasia and food and fluids cases, is the readiness by which many are willing to make despairing totally disabled people dead, that is, people who are fully conscious but completely paralyzed.  Indeed, recently Belgian doctors euthanized such a woman, and . . . . Continue Reading »

Nature has polled researchers who work with animals about the need for research and the impact that animal rights advocacy has had on their profession.  Here is a sampling.  From ” Battle Scars,” (24 FEBRUARY 2011 | VOL 470 | NATURE | 453, no link):More than 90% of respondents . . . . Continue Reading »

I am going to, perhaps, take a different approach to this dispute than some of my very good friends.  A baby in Canada, known as Baby Joseph, has an incurable neurological disease that will result in his eventual death.  The hospital wants to unilaterally remove him from life support . . . . Continue Reading »

There are many motives for attacking human exceptionalism. I have seen it attacked to permit the materialist religion of transhumanism a free hand. I have seen it attacked to elevate the moral value of animals, nature, and to promote radical environmentalism. I have seen it attacked as a consequence . . . . Continue Reading »

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No “medical treatment” could be less expensive than assisted suicide.  The drugs cost about $100. But treating patients properly so that they don’t want assisted suicide can take $100,000 or more.  And that is why it is always alarming when people grappling with medical . . . . Continue Reading »

And in a not too distant future...When a climate hysteric and a climate realist . . . . Continue Reading »

Some, like Al Gore, have been saying that the recent arctic freezes around the country and in Europe are signs of global warming. And now, now a snow storm is coming to SF!  It must be global warming—or at least, global weirding, in Thomas Friedman’s stupid phrase.Uh, that would be . . . . Continue Reading »

A new billboard in New York City is aimed at reducing abortion within the African-American community. From the story:The poster advertises a Texas-based group called Life Always, which campaigns against what it calls a “genocidal plot” against unborn babies. It is on display in the SoHo . . . . Continue Reading »