Wesley J. Smith

When I started Secondhand Smoke, I thought I was providing a good forum for learning and discussion. I had no idea it could be dangerous. From the story:?You really can be bored to death, scientists discoverBoredom could be shaving years off your life, scientists have found. Researchers say that . . . . Continue Reading »

Drip. Drip. Drip. Another day, another blow to the credibility of the IPCC Nobel Peace Prize-winning report.  This time, a claim that global warming would soon lead to a terrible reduction in corn production in north Africa turns out to have been as specious as the Himalayan glacier melt by . . . . Continue Reading »

This is the caliber of person we want to guide our international future? Feeling the heat from his own misfeasance and arrogance, IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri has lashed out at his critics.  From the story:Rajendra Pachauri, the besieged head of the U.N.’s International Panel on Climate . . . . Continue Reading »

Back in the heady days of summer, President Obama and the leaders of the House and Senate wore arrogance about passing Obamacare like a stylish coat. Ram it through, was the order of the day, as the mounting protests from the grassroots were dismissed and denigrated as just “tea . . . . Continue Reading »

I received an advance copy of my new book by mail today.  (It will be generally available in about 2 weeks.) This is my 12th, and it never ceases to be a thrill to hold in your hands the product of countless hours of research, thinking, and writing.  Thanks to all who helped bring years of . . . . Continue Reading »

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is the richest animal rights organization, I think, in the world, with assets of more than $200 million. Unlike the SPCAs around the country and other humane societies that have no connection to HSUS, it is not an animal welfare organization that merely . . . . Continue Reading »

Where is the American media?  The global warming hysteria  infrastructure is collapsing, and mostly we get silence.  But the UK press are acting like journalists—even though most papers editorially support radical efforts to fight supposed AGW. Now, the Telegraph reports . . . . Continue Reading »

The IPCC’s report was not only politicized, it was factually erroneous. The newest complaint comes from the Netherlands.  From the story:The Dutch environment minister, Jaqueline Cramer, on Wednesday demanded a thorough investigation into the 2007 report by the UN’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Full disclosure: I am very close with the Schindler family. (Terri’s siblings and mother. Her father Bob died last year, his health destroyed by grief over what happened to his beloved daughter.) They are as good and decent as people get. I know the lawyer who represented them for . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s some news about which only animal rights believers will be upset: Scientists have developed a technique for maintaining pig lungs that could permit them to be used in human transplantation within five years. From the story:Scientists in Melbourne, Australia, used a ventilator and pump . . . . Continue Reading »