Wesley J. Smith

I cannot express my disappointment in Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in sufficiently strong terms.  I voted for him despite knowing he was not my cup of tea in some areas because I believed he would get tough on California’s potentially terminal budget problems. Now, it is years later, . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, Al Gore has finally met his match.  First, NASA’s James Hansen hopes Copenhagen will fail, not because it would destroy economies, but because it wouldn’t destroy them hard enough. From the story:In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world’s pre-eminent . . . . Continue Reading »

I could make the old joke about men dying earlier because we have to put up with women, but Secondhand Smokette would validate the study by killing me.  So let me just skip the bad joke and get to the report that claims men are genetically doomed to earlier deaths.  From the story:In . . . . Continue Reading »

The assisted suicide ideologues at Compassion and Choices—formerly the Hemlock Society—pretend that their agenda is very limited and constrained, merely a teensy-weensy safety valve for use when nothing else can be done to relieve suffering. That’s all phony, baloney of course. The . . . . Continue Reading »

P. Michael Conn, co-author of The Animal Research War, warns about the plan to use the law to undermine—and eventually destroy—animal research in a column in The Scientist. This isn’t alarmism. These law clinics at universities like Harvard and Rutgers hope to set lawyers in motion . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s sad when Jon Stewart on the Comedy Channel does the MSM’s job.  Climategate is a huge and growing scandal, and yet many outlets continue to pretend it is just powdered sugar, while the NYT won’t even report what was in the e-mails based on “policy” (even . . . . Continue Reading »

I really think that some of the major global warming hysterics have lost contact with reality. In the UK, one influential adviser now says the cost of “prevention” may have to double. From the story:Preventing runaway global warming may be twice as expensive as previously thought and . . . . Continue Reading »

Since the new government took over in Australia, it seemed a sure bet to fall for the global warming hysteria.  That changed today, with a potential economy depressing initiative to establish a carbon trading system defeated in the Senate. From the story:Australia’s Parliament defeated . . . . Continue Reading »

The scientists at the heart of Climategate, is temporarily stepping down from his university post. From the story:A scientist who is one of the central figures in the controversy over hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit announced Tuesday that he is . . . . Continue Reading »

I am not a fan of the cosmetic surgery industrial complex.  As I wrote the other day, I think it promotes hedonism, takes scarce resources—including of the human kind—out of the healing sector, and promotes unreal standards of beauty.I should have added that it can also be . . . . Continue Reading »