Wesley J. Smith

Bioethicist Dan Brock—one of the radicals in a radical movement—pushes health care rationing over at the Hastings Center Report.  (To give you an idea about his views: In Children of Choice, a book he coauthored with two other bioethicists, Brock argued that the state has “a . . . . Continue Reading »

New animal studies show that pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), during which one cell is removed from an IVF-created embryo for eugenic testing, might not be safe for the babies who are allowed to be born.  More details available over at Secondhand Smoke . . . . . Continue Reading »

Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) is a procedure wherein one cell of an eight-celled embryo is removed and eugenically tested for defects, sex, appearance attributes—whatever the prospective parents wish to cull from their prospective families by discarding embryos that don’t . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the excellent aspects of the current American health care system is that most people can get immediate help if they become very ill. Not true in places like Canada or the UK, where waiting lines for crucial imaging tests can range in the several months—months that for cancer patients . . . . Continue Reading »

If iPSCs work, they will be better than ESCs because they will be made from the patient’s own cells, and hence, no tissue rejection. They will also be better than using cloned ES cells because they will be easier and less expensive to derive. They will be better than both therapeutic cloning . . . . Continue Reading »

Boy, let us hope this works out! Scientists have discovered that adult stem cells may be able to help restore memory lost to Alzheimer’s dementia. From the story:Researchers have shown for the first time that neural stem cells can rescue memory destroyed by advanced Alzheimer’s disease, . . . . Continue Reading »

Now this cartoon really hits close to SHS’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Puritanism is still with us: It’s just that the behaviors to be disdained have changed.Here’s an illustration: John Chiang, the California Treasurer, and Harold Goldstein, the executive director of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, have co-authored an opinion piece in the . . . . Continue Reading »

Politically correctness in the fight against AIDS costs lives.  The much touted Uganda success story that used ABC—abstinence, be faithful, and only then condoms—to reduce HIV infection rates dramatically, has backslid. Is the contrary CNN strategy—condoms, needle sharing, . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t think the Western media cover the catastrophe of African Aids nearly enough. And I think the lessons learned there are also ignored. First, when Uganda actively promoted ABC—abstinence, be faithful, but if if not those, use condoms—HIV infection rates plumetted. That makes . . . . Continue Reading »