Wesley J. Smith

So CNN clearly worked very hard to find Peter Singer in Melbourne, Australia, in order to interview him about the story that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett hope to convince the super rich give away half their money.  That’s a good idea, and in keeping with what a lot of very successful . . . . Continue Reading »

Jenny McCartney, writing in the Telegraph, has a cogent warning about the consequences of a Western culture grown increasingly crass and heartless toward our brothers and sisters.  First she tells of a suicidal man who was almost talked down from a bridge jump, until impatient motorists let him . . . . Continue Reading »

The sheer arrogance of the leaders of the  California Institute of Regenerative Medicine is such that they seem to be practicing for the coming oligarchy rather than participating in an institution of democratic governance.  Recently, it met—apparently in secret and in violation of . . . . Continue Reading »

A UK general practitioner has admitted to killing patients based on “compassion.” From the story:Dr Howard Martin, once feared to be a “second Harold Shipman” [a UK physician mass murderer], told The Daily Telegraph that he gave what proved to be fatal doses of painkillers to . . . . Continue Reading »

As a Martin Luther King liberal—for which I am now deemed conservative (which tells you what has happened to modern liberalism)—I am always astounded when bioethics radicals claim the mantle of equality and compassion in their work.  Their beliefs promote just the . . . . Continue Reading »

I greatly admire Christopher Hitchens as a writer of superior talent and vigor, even as I shake my head in wonder at his anti-Mother Theresa obsession. I have not met Hitchens—although I have been entertained by stories told about him by mutual acquaintances. And while I have read many of his . . . . Continue Reading »

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“The scientists” used to say that embryonic stem cell research provided the primary, perhaps “only” hope for treatments of degenerative conditions like Parkinson’s and spinal cord injury.  This hype, willfully shoveled by Big Biotech and spread by its willing . . . . Continue Reading »

Animal research is crucial to the quest to find treatments for the worst human illnesses.  Toward this end, UK scientists are genetically altering pigs so that they will be born with currently incurable human diseases so that they can be used in drug research looking for effective . . . . Continue Reading »

It is now a joke, really.  But now the warnings of increasingly dire soon-to-be calamities caused by global warming have reached the ultimate end—human extinction.  From the column by Andrew Bolt: WE humans are about to be wiped out in a few decades. The grandchildren of many of us . . . . Continue Reading »