Wesley J. Smith

We hear constantly that people diagnosed as being persistently unconscious should be dehydrated to death because they are not “persons,” or are actually “dead”—and so should be available for organ harvesting.  We hear that even if the family resists, futile care . . . . Continue Reading »

Back to the rationing drawing board:Obamacare rationing panels will be less direct than the crocs’ approach, but often with the same anticipated outcome:A picture really is worth a thousand . . . . Continue Reading »

The current system of medical marijuana distribution is a form of anarchy that is quickly becoming a cover for recreational abuse. Now, to add to the growing disaster, some doctors are writing letters for teenagers to get marijuana for regular consumption as a “treatment” for ADHD.  . . . . Continue Reading »

For years we have been nagged into getting screened for colon cancer, screened for breast cancer, screened for prostate cancer, screened, screened, screened.  It made sense.  Catch cancer early, and your chances of survival dramatically improve.Funny, how things change—or perhaps . . . . Continue Reading »

I never believed the Chinese Government’s assurances that they were going to dismantle the organ trade in their country.  And now, it seems that the supposed effort has predictably failed. From the story:Organ trafficking in China is more active than ever despite efforts to crack down on . . . . Continue Reading »

The UN global warming bureaucrats in charge of the hysteria section never run out of imaginative horrors being caused—or coming soon—by (now stalled) global warming.  In today’s edition, it’s a cause of prostitution!  From the story:The effects of climate change . . . . Continue Reading »

We have become a culture that tells the elderly, people with disabilities, and others who need care and support that they are “burdens.” Indeed, in my recent debate in Edinburgh with Dr. Libby Wilson, my opponent explicitly supported legalizing assisted suicide so that the ill and . . . . Continue Reading »

Apparently somebody hacked into climate change researchers’ e-mails and published the exchanges.  From the story:Hundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world’s leading climate scientists over the past 13 years have been stolen by hackers and . . . . Continue Reading »

The more we use human body parts in medicine and products, the more stories like this are likely to take place:Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics. Four Peruvians were arrested on . . . . Continue Reading »

Global warming has apparently stalled, and the usual media suspects are getting restless. First, there was the heresy from the BBC, and now a major German news magazine is showing some sign of coming out the reverie. From the story in Der Spiegel:Climatologists use their computer models to draw . . . . Continue Reading »