Wesley J. Smith

Oh, Al Gore isn’t going to like this.  Some of the same scientists who predicted global warming, now see a coming big chill—because, waddya know—a lot of this is cyclical!  From the story:Among the most prominent of the scientists is Professor Mojib Latif, a leading . . . . Continue Reading »

I am very weary of the Green Crowd extolling China as a model or global responsibility.  The NYT’s official “Davos columnist,” Thomas Friedman, is at it again.  Today, he warns how China is leaping ahead in green technologies, which Friedman argues, we could top if only . . . . Continue Reading »

I have two friends—yes, it’s true, I have friends—who recently experienced disturbing neurological symptoms that suggested possible stroke or brain tumor. One lives in Canada.  This friend reported the symptoms immediately, and the physician ordered an MRI—which was . . . . Continue Reading »

The first ten years of the 2000s (please, no arguments over whether the first decade really ends this year) brought bioethics front and center into national and international prominence as never before.  Since this is the time for creating “top ten lists,” I pondered the matter over . . . . Continue Reading »

The public is growing increasingly skeptical about the supposed crisis we face from human-caused global warming.  From the story:The drop off in public support for the idea that global warming is a fact mostly caused by human activity looks most pronounced in Canada. In November, 63% of . . . . Continue Reading »

What a hoot!Part 2:And the finale:Those bad winters seem like the current one. Oh, oh!Dr. Stephen Schneider, who appears at the end of the video to worry that the cure for the ice age might be worse than the disease, is now a global warming alarmist.  Ha!HT: . . . . Continue Reading »

A book based on presentations made two years or so ago at the Holocaust Museum of Houston has been released, by the name of Medicine After the Holocaust. I have a chapter on assisted suicide, which is a written version of my presentation at a public debate—link below—against Compassion . . . . Continue Reading »

Yesterday, I posted about a bioethics article that advocated dropping human intrinsic dignity as a fundamental premise to be applied in bioethical analyses.  This meme is profoundly dangerous to the medically vulnerable.  Moreover and alas, human unexceptionalism is the mainstream view in . . . . Continue Reading »

Shades of the Traci Latimer murder from Canada, now a  mother in the UK has apparently overdosed her disabled son with pure heroin.  And this, after she was out on bail from a previous attempt!  From the story:Ten days after Thomas was admitted to hospital, [Frances] Inglis approached . . . . Continue Reading »

An article in the journal Bioethics proposes dumping intrinsic human dignity as a basis for determining bioethical principles and policies.  But that would expose the most defenseless among us to the worst forms of exploitation, which the author, Alasdair Cochrane, acknowledges. From his . . . . Continue Reading »