Wesley J. Smith

The CBS Poll, that has always seemed to me to lean favorably to President Obama (as Rasmussen tends to poll unfavorably), had some very bad news for supporters of the president and “his” health care plan.  From the story:Last week, President Obama signed historic health care reform . . . . Continue Reading »

The clip below requires a little unpacking: In answering a flip, but it turns out quite good, question about “death panels,” Paul Krugman claims accurately that the cost/benefit board established over private medicine by Obamacare will be able to impose “more or less binding . . . . Continue Reading »

Why I will never clone . . . . Continue Reading »

I know, it’s just the weather. But this year, it appears that arctic ice will return to normal levels. From the story:Barring an about face by nature or adjustments, it appears that for the first time since 2001, Arctic Sea ice will hit the “normal” line as defined by the National . . . . Continue Reading »

The first, rush-rush investigation of Climategate has determined that the scientists at East Anglia did not distort the data or interfere with peer review, but did keep too many secrets. From the Guardian story:MPs today strongly criticised the University of East Anglia for not tackling a . . . . Continue Reading »

Yikes! Thousands of patients were put at risk by blunders in cancer screening or diagnoses in the UK, much of it caused by staff shortages. From the story:Blunders by GPs, hospital doctors and nurses jeopardised the health of thousands of patients when cancer was misdiagnosed or not spotted . . . . Continue Reading »

A pretty good debate was held today at Columbia University Law School between David Levin—head of New York chapter of Compassion and Choices—and yours truly.  As I recall it, it hit some hard point on both sides.  Check it out at this podcast link:That was this morning. This . . . . Continue Reading »

Amidst all the fury over the Bush stem cell funding restrictions, every once in a while stories would appear indicating that the field was really being stifled not by funding problems—I’ll say—ESCR received more than $2 billion in private/public funding during the Bush . . . . Continue Reading »

Humans are just too stupid to listen to the global warming hysterics.  So saith James Lovelock, author of the Gaia Theory, you know, the idea that the earth and all of its organic and non organic parts are really part of one, living, self-regulating, system. From the story:Humans are too stupid . . . . Continue Reading »

Anyone who knows up close what it is like to have a loved one die of Alzheimer’s  can’t help but sympathize with the pain of a husband watching his wife fade away from the dread brain disease. I’ve been there. My uncle died Alzheimer’s.But legalizing euthanasia for . . . . Continue Reading »