Wesley J. Smith

Somebody really doesn’t want you to read Secondhand Smoke. Last week, an attack of some sort made Google, Firefox, and other sites think coming here could hurt readers’ computers.  Joe, the IT guy got rid of it. And now it is back.  Don’t you love freedom lovers?I am . . . . Continue Reading »

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine was sold to a gullible public on the promise of developing embryonic stem cell and therapeutic cloning CURES! CURES! CURES! that the eeeevilll Bush was thwarting. But, when that didn’t work out—and desperate to show some . . . . Continue Reading »

If I were a state governor, I would refuse to expand Medicaid under Obamacare because that is how the Feds seduce states into making financial commitments they can’t afford—pay for it at first and then later, pull out the rug.  (O-care pays 100% for awhile, then 90%.  But that . . . . Continue Reading »

Once a society accepts the fundamental premises of assisted suicide—e.g., radical individualism and killing as an acceptable answer to suffering—there really are no brakes.  Switzerland more than aptly demonstrates the thesis.  Assisted suicide is up there 60% in the last five . . . . Continue Reading »

The ACA sought to expand Medicaid to people 133% above the poverty line though a carrot and stick approach. The stick threatened to kick  non complying states out of Medicaid by eliminating the current federal contributions—even to maintain existing coverage. . . . . Continue Reading »

Eugenics is alive in well in the ongoing search and destroy mission seeking to wipe people with Down syndrome and other genetic anomalies off the face of the earth. In New Zealand, the government apparently is so overt in its pre natal targeting that a criminal complaint filed by a Saving . . . . Continue Reading »

Palliative sedation is a legitimate form of pain control that is required in only very rare cases. But death squad medicine advocates seek to use it as a way of making people die by putting them in comas and then denying food and water, something that is sometimes called terminal sedation.The . . . . Continue Reading »

I ran across a story in the San Francisco Chronicle , in which scientists are studying the brains of Buddhist nuns and monks in order to see what “compassion” looks like.  But Buddhism isn’t about compassion, properly understood.  Buddhists seek to become detached from, . . . . Continue Reading »

Two thoughts: First, Buddhism tends to be the favorite religion of liberalism.  No God. No sin. No judgmentalism.  Plenty of consequences—karma and all, but I think that gets forgotten.  Second, I am not a scientist, but it seems to me that these days, scientific hypotheses . . . . Continue Reading »

I case in the UK raised my eyebrow—as so much happening there does these days. A convicted murderer in a mental hospital wants to starve himself to death, but can’t because he is not in a prison—where he apparently could.  From the Telegraph story:Brady, 74, had been . . . . Continue Reading »