Wesley J. Smith

It’s not wrong for animals. Unlike us, animals aren’t moral . . . . Continue Reading »

The FBI has reported an increase in animal rights terrorist activities. I discuss it over at . . . . Continue Reading »

The “health care reform” juggernaut continues to roll, much of it above the public discourse. An article by a Harvard Business School professor in the current New England Journal of Medicine suggests “value based system.” What does that mean? A lot of bureaucracy. From the . . . . Continue Reading »

A reporter from Life Site News.com covered my speech at the anti euthanasia symposium and did a fine job summarizing what I said over a one hour speech. (I also like the photo).  From the story:Reflecting on the euthansia agenda amid the modern advances in palliative care, Smith asked, . . . . Continue Reading »

The New England Journal of Medicine, in addition to publishing important scientific and medical reports, is highly political.  It supports assisted suicide, for example, and even respectfully published the Groningen Protocol—the Dutch check list to determine which babies can be murdered . . . . Continue Reading »

With Amazon listing my upcoming book A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy for presale, I thought I should set up a blog solely devoted to the animal rights issue.  We discuss those matters here at SHS, of course, and will still.  But it is only one piece of the human . . . . Continue Reading »

What can only be called a fundamentalist wing has developed within the global warming movement.  One attribute of fundamentalism is a focus—and for some, an hysterical obsession—with end-of-the-world fear mongering, as in the warning just issued by “Nobel . . . . Continue Reading »

In the UK, assisted suicide advocates seek to redefine the practice as a necessity by making the claim that permitting it would actually lengthen lives.  How?  People wouldn’t “have” to do it so soon if they knew it was available when they were ready.  More details . . . . Continue Reading »

The economy has slowed the release of my upcoming  book criticizing the animal rights movement, but it is moving forward.  It is now listed on Amazon.  The title comes from PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk’s most famous quote: A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Environmentalism is changing.  It once was a distinctly humanistic movement, pushing conservation as a way of ensuring prosperity to our posterity, cleanup of pollution, protecting of habitats and endangered species, etc.—all certainly human duties arising from human exceptionalism. . . . . Continue Reading »