Wesley J. Smith

I warned and warned—here at SHS, on radio talk shows, in speeches—that the real dirty work of Obamacare would be done quietly, behind the scenes, by an army of faceless bureaucrats who will be directed to add the devil in the details of the bill.  Moreover, I prophesied, the bad . . . . Continue Reading »

There is an awful story about a suicide obsessed man named William F. Melchert-Dinkel, who allegedly helped counsel and teach the suicidal—including a Canadian college girl—to do the deed over the Internet.  He has been criminally charged with assisting suicide in two cases. From . . . . Continue Reading »

The ongoing deprofessionalization of American medicine was furthered by a just released opinion of the Committee on Bioethics of the American Academy of Pediatricians, which opined that female genital mutilation is wrong—gee, really?—but that pediatricians should, perhaps, be allowed to . . . . Continue Reading »

I just read a very detailed—and way too long for me to recount fully here—expose` in Der Spiegel, about Climategate and the bar room brawl between climate warming alarmist scientists (and I don’t meant that pejoratively) and skeptics.  It is a very important article and anyone . . . . Continue Reading »

I was going to post about this case—in which a husband with cancer murdered his wife with Alzheimer’s disease, and then killed himself—because the political opportunists at the assisted suicide advocacy group Compassion and Choices decided to exploit the case to push their . . . . Continue Reading »

Human exceptionalism demands that human equals be treated with equal respect regardless of their economic circumstances.  This means, as just one example, implacable opposition to slavery and human trafficking.  It also means opposing using the poor and destitute as biological resources, . . . . Continue Reading »

If scientists want us to take the purported global warming threat seriously, they have to stop with the panic mongering.  Here’s the latest example: Scientists have issued a study warning that global warming will cause mass lizard extinction. From the story:Scientists warn in a research . . . . Continue Reading »

Do not tell me that this administration has no intention of rationing health care.  Do not even breathe it.  Former Senator Tom Daschle, who would today be head of Health and Human Services but for some tax problems—the man the NYT called the most influential adviser on . . . . Continue Reading »

Animal rights activists often like to tout a purported quote from our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln.  Here’s the alleged quote:I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of the whole human being.I read at least one Lincoln biography a year, and I have . . . . Continue Reading »

I am not a big believer that science will extend the normal human lifespan anytime soon—if ever.  But I find it interesting that the transhumanist idea of immortality has caught on in some influential circles, with some insisting that the prevention of aging is a moral imperative.  . . . . Continue Reading »