Wesley J. Smith

Just when you thought that the high advisers to President Obama couldn’t get any more radical. Consider: Cass Sunstein, his nominated regulations czar, wants animals to be able to sue their owners and has asserted that the lives of elderly people should be given less value in government . . . . Continue Reading »

This is the same kind of injury, successfully treated in mice, that gained Geron an FDA license to use potentially dangerous embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injury in human trials. Only these scientists apparently got a similar result as Geron did using blue food dye!  From the . . . . Continue Reading »

For nearly two weeks, the Obama health care plan has been mired in a controversy over supposed mandatory counseling requirements for seniors about end-of-life care.  Is it true?  Hard to tell when on page 424, the section in question begins: (a) MEDICARE.—17 (1) IN . . . . Continue Reading »

It was nearly two weeks ago  (July 16)  Betsy McCaughey first charged on the Fred Thompson radio program (reported here on July 18) that the House health care reform bill required “mandatory counseling,” about end of life treatment options.  Was the charge true?  I . . . . Continue Reading »

The San Francisco Chronicle carries a helpful op/ed piece by two physicians to day on the mandatory counseling requirement in the Obamacare House bill by physician and USC School of Medicine professor emeritus Katherine Dowling Schlaerth. From her column:This current legislation...seeks to . . . . Continue Reading »

Smokette and I are listening to Dennis Miller on the radio—more accurately, on the computer—as is our AM wont. He just cracked a great joke about Obamacare’s plan to require seniors to receive reeducation camp indoctrination—er, mandatory counseling—every five . . . . Continue Reading »

Tune into Secondhand Smoke to find out why . . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare will tax some unhealthy lifestyles.  Now, we should add users of sunbeds to the list. From the story:The International Agency for Research on Cancer announced Wednesday that it had elevated sunbeds, used by tens of millions of people for tanning, to its highest cancer risk . . . . Continue Reading »

A book is put together like a puzzle. The first piece is the proposal that gets you the gig. Then the research. Writing 80.000 words (in this case) comes next. Then editing. My upcoming book has passed these hurdles.We now have a rough of the book cover, reproduced on your left. This is not . . . . Continue Reading »

I reported earlier here at SHS about a published paper in which scientists claimed to have made sperm from embryonic stem cells. That paper has now been retracted. From the story:A paper that made international headlines earlier this month is causing headaches for its authors. Late last week several . . . . Continue Reading »