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Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism, and consults for the Patients Rights Council.

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Suicide Pushers Impact UK Statistics

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They must be so proud—the ghouls who give people moral permission to kill themselves and then teach them how to do it with helium.  Now, enough people are doing themselves in with this method that the increase is reflected in UK death statistics.  From the Guardian story:Inert gas . . . . Continue Reading »

Mowie Wowie Lowers IQ in Teens

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No surprise to this Baby Boomer: Marijuana lowers IQ in teenage users.  From the Telegraph story:Teenagers who regularly smoke cannabis are putting themselves at risk of   permanently damaging their intelligence, according to a landmark study. Medical marijuana, as I have written, . . . . Continue Reading »

Abortion on Demand Democrats

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In the wake of the Akin debacle, there has been some focus on the Republican position(s) on abortion. But Jeff Jacoby, writing in the Boston Globe, notes that the Democrats are way ouf of the mainstream.  From, “Both Parties are Too Extreme on Abortion:”Though one-third of . . . . Continue Reading »

Our Neurotic Fear of Suffering

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Never in human history has suffering been more readily relieved than today. And yet, paradoxically, we have never been more afraid of suffering. Our forebears would find this very odd. For them, horrendous suffering was ubiquitous, the bane of rich and poor alike. For example, before anesthesia, the agony of surgery may have killed more patients than surgical procedures helped… . Continue Reading »