Wesley J. Smith

I have written before of the futile care case in Canada involving  “Baby Isaiah,” an infant who experienced a severe brain injury during a very long labor process. When the physicians sent a letter stating they would unilaterally cease life support, Isaiah’s . . . . Continue Reading »

I am in LA, near my old stomping grounds in the San Fernando Valley, where I just gave grand rounds at a Veteran’s medical facility to physicians, residents, and other medical staffers. We had a very good discussion about maintaining human intrinsic dignity as the fundamental purpose of . . . . Continue Reading »

So much for caring exclusively about alleviating the suffering of ill and disabled people. Geron’s head has admitted playing politics with the timing of its request to conduct the world’s first human embryonic stem cell trials on its ESC-based product to be tried on people with acute . . . . Continue Reading »

What word best describes NYT columnist Thomas Friedman: Fatuous? Yea, that works.In the face of the collapse of credibility for the global warming crisis hysteria—not the same thing as whether we are in a warming trend or whether humans have some impact on climate—Friedman assumes that . . . . Continue Reading »

It is astonishing to me the fervor with which some in the life sciences seek to dismantle the very concept of human freedom. The latest example comes from Penn biologist Anthony R. Cashmore in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , in an article in which he claims that human free . . . . Continue Reading »

It is astonishing to me the fervor with which some in the life sciences seek to dismantle the very concept of human freedom.  If they have their way, we will go from, “The devil made me do it,” to perhaps, “My genes made me do it,” or, “My genes as mediated by my . . . . Continue Reading »

HSUS—Humane Society of the United States—is an interesting organization, what I call a “stealth” animal rights group.  Unlike PETA, it doesn’t pitch the animal rights dogma of human/animal moral equality, nor does it explicitly call for an end to all animal . . . . Continue Reading »

The Netherlands vividly illustrates how euthanasia/assisted suicide cannot logically be limited to the restricted category of people diagnosed with a terminal illness. Since euthanasia began there under official sanction—first decriminalization and then formal legalization—the Dutch have . . . . Continue Reading »

I keep bringing stories like this up because the animal rights movement’s propaganda has seriously eroded the public’s support for animal research—not to the point that a majority oppose it—but the numbers should be limited to strict animal rightists, and it’s . . . . Continue Reading »

On and on it goes, where it stops, nobody knows: Now UK hospitals are being accused of putting patients’ lives at risk by failing to comply with safety orders from central control. From the story:Hospitals were accused tonight of putting patients’ lives at unnecessary risk after research . . . . Continue Reading »