Wesley J. Smith

Just great.  In Oregon, an assisted suicide clinic is going to be established. From the story:Portland psychiatrist Dr. Stuart Weisberg plans to open a house in the Sellwood neighborhood where the terminally ill can kill themselves under Oregon’s Death with Dignity Law. Weisberg told . . . . Continue Reading »

One of my most searing experiences was moving to San Francisco in mid 1992 at the height of the AIDS catastrophe.   To see so many emaciated young men walking down Market Street, on canes or supported by friends looking as if they were as old as Methuselah, was absolutely heartbreaking.It soon . . . . Continue Reading »

This is good. The nomination of Donald Berwick to head Medicare/Medicaid will not receive unanimous consent in the Senate. Berwick, SHSes will recall, supports socialized medicine and health care rationing—views that were supported by Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius. From the . . . . Continue Reading »

More good news on the adult stem cell front.  The blind can see.  From the story:Patients blinded in one or both eyes by chemical burns regained their vision after healthy stem cells were extracted from their eyes and reimplanted, according to a report by Italian researchers at a . . . . Continue Reading »

In a one of oh so many mendacious maneuvers to help sell Obamacare, Congress segregated a law needed to keep Medicare docs from suffering a huge pay from the bill in chief, even though it clearly was germane to the legislation that centralized federal control over health care.  The purpose for . . . . Continue Reading »

The murderer Jack Kevorkian was imprisoned for lethally injecting Thomas Youk, who had Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was prosecuted because, egotist that he is, he video taped himself doing it and brought it to euthanasia fan Mike Wallace for airing on 60 Minutes. That was even too much for the . . . . Continue Reading »

Darwinism is a theory of biological inception and change over time.  Yet some advocates, bent on destroying Judeo/Christian moral philosophy that focuses on intrinsic human dignity, abuse the theory by using it as a justification to promote dangerous cultural and societal shifts.  The . . . . Continue Reading »

I am not part of the Darwin debates generally, but it always fries me when some Darwinists abuse a theory of biological inception and change over time to promote dangerous shifts in human society and culture.  Now, over at Psychology Today, we are told that because life evolved, human . . . . Continue Reading »

A lot of hot air, cyber material, and ink go into bemoaning the supposed lack of respect patients receive in the medical system for their advance medical decisions.  Usually, criticism involves the purported reluctance of doctors to honor a patients “right to die”—usually . . . . Continue Reading »

A global warming alarmist from Australia named Tim Flannery, who was Chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, was interviewed about his own hysterical predictions that haven’t, shall we say, panned out.  Flannery’s back peddling was so furious it could become a new source of . . . . Continue Reading »