Wesley J. Smith

Hollywood loves euthanasia/assisted suicide, generally presenting the issue in a positive light, perhaps most notoriously in Clint Eastwood’s “better dead than disabled” Oscar winner, Million Dollar Baby .  But last night’s Medium was an exception to the rule. It . . . . Continue Reading »

Credit where credit is due: The NYT presented a fair story —complete with personal profiles—of the most provocative segment of the pro life movement; the in-your-face street protesters. Even their overt Christian motivations were treated respectfully. This is a remarkable media moment, . . . . Continue Reading »

Today, the New York Times printed a fair, even sympathetic, story about pro life street protestors—profiling three of them.  From the story, byline Damien Cave:Action means many things to abortion opponents. Lobbyists and fund-raisers fight for the cause in marble hallways; . . . . Continue Reading »

The BBC , of all media outlets, has broken ranks on the global warming hysteria, with a fair and balanced report about some of the reasons why we have seen no warming in ten years, despite computer projections to the contrary.  Global cooling, anyone? . . . . Continue Reading »

This should really cause concern among the Al Gore acolytes: The BBC, of all media outlets, has noticed that global warming isn’t, well, warming.  From the story:This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 . . . . Continue Reading »

Hollywood loves assisted suicide and euthanasia. Not just as a plot device, but to promote through its various products as a modern, caring, compassionate, and proper policy for society to accept. Perhaps the most notable example was the Clint Eastwood movie Million Dollar Baby, that carried a . . . . Continue Reading »

Long time readers of SHS know that I am concerned about the the publication of supposedly objective scientific papers that are actually advocacy pieces intended to promote ideological or political agendas. This corrupts science, in my view, because it takes it out of the realm of searching for truth . . . . Continue Reading »

Now this is interesting.  Activity in the brain surges at the point of death. From the story : A study of seven terminally ill patients found identical surges in brain activity moments before death, providing what may be physiological evidence of “out of body” experiences reported by . . . . Continue Reading »

This is interesting: Scientists have discovered that activity in the brain surges at the point of death. From the story:A study of seven terminally ill patients found identical surges in brain activity moments before death, providing what may be physiological evidence of “out of body” . . . . Continue Reading »

A Democratic activist moved to Massachussets, where she expected to be covered by the state’s universal health care  program. Oops, it didn’t work out: She can’t afford the premiums.  In the process, she learned that Obamacare might not be the wise course that people of . . . . Continue Reading »