Wesley J. Smith

The UK’s NICE reliably illustrates the peril we will face of Obamacare’s form of centralized control is allowed to take hold. From the story:The Government’s drugs rationing body, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), has provisionally said that it does . . . . Continue Reading »

Martin Luther King was one of the three primary inspirations in my formative years (the other two being Ralph Nader and JKF). He was all about expanding inclusion in the human community, and alas, we now see many in bioethics and in other disciplines seeking actively to shrink it by rejecting human . . . . Continue Reading »

The tremendously talented cartoonist—and animal rights zealot— Dan Piraro, stumbled into truth in this cartoon. Meat provides good and nutritious food for people at a very reasonable price. That is a tremendous benefit for society that animal rights believers will never talk people out . . . . Continue Reading »

Omigosh! The panic about the supposed melting of the Himalayan glaciers that the “peer reviewed” scientists at the IOCC—all bow—claimed was imminent by 2035, not only isn’t, but was based on almost nothing at all.   From the story:A WARNING that climate change . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama and his cohorts in Congress are so dead set on passing a bill—any bill—they don’t care if they hurt the poor. And indeed, the current bills will by forcing states to widen—and pay for—Medicaid, which could break the bank. Moreover, the payments . . . . Continue Reading »

When I get around to writing about the top ten controversies in bioethics that I see coming in this decade, near the top will be the struggle to enact conscience clauses to protect the careers of physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals who still take the Hippocratic Oath and its . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the primary benefits I hope SHS provides is a real time  history of the issues and controversies we discuss here. The Danny Glover foot in mouth nonsense about the earth reacting to the failure of Copenhagen brought two such stories to mind from our archives.  First, trying to stop . . . . Continue Reading »

We all sighed and shook our heads at Pat Robertson’s ridiculous assertion that the Haiti earthquake was caused because the brave slaves who rebelled against France back in the 19th Century had “made a pact with the devil.”  But we should be just as dismissive of Danny Glover, . . . . Continue Reading »

Wow. It isn’t too often that the Chronicle of Higher Education echoes SHS, but an article on environmentalism becoming a religion comes very close.  From the article “Green Guilt” by Stephen T Asma (my emphasis):Instead of religious sins plaguing our conscience, we now have . . . . Continue Reading »

Global warming? What global . . . . Continue Reading »