Wesley J. Smith

Animal rights is such a peaceable movement—at least that is what its adherents insist. Yet, personal threats by animal rights fanatics have so unnerved an American Olympian, he is afraid to stay at a hotel. From the story : U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir says he received threats from anti-fur . . . . Continue Reading »

Animal rights is such a peaceable movement—at least that is what its adherents insist. Yet, personal threats by animal rights fanatics have so unnerved an American Olympian, he is afraid to stay at a hotel.  From the story:U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir says he received threats from . . . . Continue Reading »

NYT columnist Nicholas D. Kristof writes today about another one of those “conservatives are from Venus, liberals from Mars,” kind of studies that come along from time to time.  Supposedly, we are hard wired to our political persuasions, as evidenced by our reactions to various . . . . Continue Reading »

I reported earlier on the Rom Houben case that made international headlines when it turned out that he had been misdiagnosed by his physicians as unconscious for 26 years. New diagnostic techniques showed near normal brain function.  And, it appeared, he could communicate with the help of a . . . . Continue Reading »

The clique that fashioned themselves “the scientists” who mattered about global warming worked hard to keep their in crowd status. But now, that the IPCC’s credibility has gone Humpty Dumpty, and Climategate having revealed the lengths which some scientists took to control the . . . . Continue Reading »

Politicized science has corrupted the field and undermined the public’s confidence.  To counter this trend, notable stem cell scientists have signed an “open letter” calling for greater integrity in the peer review process. From the letter:Stem cell biology is highly topical . . . . Continue Reading »

The argument over embryonic stem cell research—and it’s first cousin and real agenda, human cloning research—has always been an ethics debate, not a science debate. But that doesn’t mean that scientific efforts to find ethical “alternatives’ to ESCR should not be . . . . Continue Reading »

Exactly!Ha! (Yes, yes, Science Literalists, I know that feelings don’t really come from the . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, the animal rightists are not going to like this. Seizing on the claim that meat eating causes global warming, rightists have pushed vegetarianism as an environmental fix. Now, a study has concluded, that eating meat might actually be better for the environment—at least in the UK. From the . . . . Continue Reading »

University towns tend to be the worst when it comes to vapidity and useless symbolic gestures promoting Leftist hyper control. In that tradition, Cambridge, MA—home of Harvard (of course)—has decided to take the point on fighting global warming!  And  they are serious about it, . . . . Continue Reading »