Wesley J. Smith

Over the past fifty years, the purposes and practices of medicine have changed radically. Where medical ethics was once life-affirming, today’s treatments and medical procedures increasingly involve the legal taking of human life. The litany is familiar: More than one million pregnancies are . . . . Continue Reading »

We have long suspected it, and now a UN paper admits it: Radical environmentalism is being made into religion. From the story: Environmentalism should be regarded on the same level with religion “as the only compelling, value-based narrative available to humanity,” according to a paper . . . . Continue Reading »

Climategate has revealed an ugly truth: Science and journalism have become so ideologically driven that both important professions are in danger of collapse of confidence. Latest example: The BBC had the Climategate e-mails and erected the news blockade rather than expose one of the biggest science . . . . Continue Reading »

Genetic determinism is a way of liberating us from free will and taking full responsibility for our actions.  One would think that “my genes made me do it” defense would go no further than pleading, “The devil made me do it.”  Alas, one would so hope in vain.  . . . . Continue Reading »

Misanthropy is all the rage these days, Daahling. We have the animal rights crowd and bioethicists disdaining human exceptionalism as “speciesist.” The Darwinists think species distinctions are really fiction since we all evolved out of the ooze.  The radical environmentalists take . . . . Continue Reading »

Whether or not global warming turns out to be more about cooked books than a cooked planet, it has exposed a cancer on the body of science that seeks to bar heterodox thinkers from having their work published in respectable journals. Very convenient. In that way, if someone has an idea you would . . . . Continue Reading »

Reason’s Ron Bailey is sure a sucker for futurism and transhumanism.  If there is a big conference about how we can all live forever, count on him to be there breathlessly reporting, which is ironic and paradoxical: Bailey usually claims the mantle of rationality and most of this stuff is . . . . Continue Reading »

So now the University of East Anglia, either the victim, perpetrator—or both—of Climategate, has done a “U-turn” and agreed to release raw data that it has heretofore fought assiduously to keep secret. From the story:Leading British scientists at the University of East . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, this is going to have to be studiously ignored at the upcoming confab in Copenhagen.  Apparently those Himalayan glaciers that are supposedly being devastated by global warming, may actually be doing just fine, thank you very much.  From the story:It has been reported worldwide that . . . . Continue Reading »

A lot of people seem emotionally invested in Rom Houben not actually being conscious. But all the evidence is on the other side.  Now, his doctor Steven Laureys is interviewed in the New Scientist about his diagnosis.  From the interview:Can you say what makes you so sure he is . . . . Continue Reading »