Wesley J. Smith

The global warming agenda, if enacted, will lead to less freedom, lower prosperity, and higher taxes (as in the EPA taking “command and control”  over the economy).  But it could also lead to tyranny and profound anti humanism. Example: China is extolling its population control . . . . Continue Reading »

Scream in abject fear! Run around in circles!  Store up food that lasts for 25 years!  We only have ten years to save the planet!  From the story:The world has just ten years to bring greenhouse gas emissions under control before the damage they cause become irreversible, the Met . . . . Continue Reading »

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Each year, the CBC asks me to predict what will happen in the coming year in bioethics.  I have done so.  From my piece:“Flash Forward” is a new and interesting television drama presented on the ABC Television Network. The premise is brilliant – due to reasons still . . . . Continue Reading »

Al Gore is a disgrace—now a very rich disgrace—but a disgrace, nonetheless.  If global warming is the crisis he claims, he should be debating all comers. He should face hostile questions and rebut them with facts. But he won’t.  Perhaps that’s because he is too . . . . Continue Reading »

I have detected a new bioethical thrust being trotted out among the would-be medical ruling class—that each of us have a duty to be experimented upon.  First it was President Obama’s bioethicist-in-chief Ezekien Emanuel.  Now a medical professor named Anthony Mathur in the UK . . . . Continue Reading »

I have my annual predictions for 2010 coming out in the CBC newsletter very soon—which I will link here. One of my predictions, already written, is the passage of Obamacare,  without the public option but with some form of non profit national private insurance exchange.  It looks . . . . Continue Reading »

A law permitting the execution of gays who have HIV is a very important human rights issue that Christians should engage in united opposition.  From the story : The Ugandan legislation in its current form would mandate a death sentence for active homosexuals living with HIV or in cases of . . . . Continue Reading »

Uganda is apparently contemplating imposing the death penalty on gay people with HIV.  Astonishing and brutally wrong, the imposition of a culture of death in that it uses killing as an acceptable answer to an issue of human suffering. From the story:The Ugandan legislation in its current form . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s some good adult stem cell news, that has been—as usual—underplayed in the media.  Blood stem cells can be engineered to target the HIV virus. From the story:Their study, published Monday in the-peer reviewed online journal PLoS ONE, provides proof-of-principle — . . . . Continue Reading »