Wesley J. Smith

The subtitle of my upcoming book, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy (taken from PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk’s most famous quote), is The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement.  That cost is both real and harmful, as evidenced by a story of important research on anthrax not being . . . . Continue Reading »

I have long believed that the hysteria over global warming is an elitist-driven madness, but madness with a purpose.  The end goal is rule by a scientocracy and drone bureaucracy that will gather power onto themselves, control the developed economies and lifestyles of individuals, as it stifles . . . . Continue Reading »

I have had great sympathy with the problem Obamacare has posed for people with disabilities. On one hand, many are terribly under-served by the health care system. On the other hand, I believe Obamacare will lead to explicit rationing of expensive patients, which will one day include people with . . . . Continue Reading »

Senator Harry Reid has stooped to a new low by comparing people who oppose Obamacare to defenders of slavery. From the story:...Reid argued that Republicans are using the same stalling tactics employed in the pre-Civil War era. “Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the . . . . Continue Reading »

In my last post, I suggested that the global warming hysterics are just crackers.  Here’s another example. The UN’s top climate bureaucrat says that we have to dig deeper into our already empty pockets. From the story:Yvo de Boer, the United Nations’ top climate official, said . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been pondering our sharp political and cultural divides recently, and it has become depressingly clear to me that true “debate” has become nearly impossible on many issues.  I first brought this up publicly in my debate with Gregory Stock on genetic engineering of . . . . Continue Reading »

Hypocrisy, thy name is global warming hysteric: Al Gore with his four houses and huge appetite for electricity, “green” movie stars with their limos (Ed Begley excepted), etc. Don’t expect the NYT and other American MSM to report this story, but the Telegraph nailed the hypocrisy . . . . Continue Reading »

My pal Steven Hayward (of the American Enterprise Institute) has a funny—and telling—blog entry over at The Corner. Apparently Michael Schlesinger of the University of Illinois, one of the big global warming scientists, is mad at a NY Times reporter for reporting that Copenhagen . . . . Continue Reading »

Bioethicist Art Caplan has weighed in against my Weekly Standard column.  But he misses, or at least, fails to address, the primary point of the column.  From his blog:Wesley Smith has a new column out, in which he inappropriately uses the case in Belgium of Rom Houben to argue that . . . . Continue Reading »

I am hearing some back stage grumbling that I included Terri Schiavo in my Weekly Standard article about the Rom Houben situation when they had different neurological conditions. There is no question in my mind that Terri was not in a locked in state and that Houben is. But so what? I was not . . . . Continue Reading »