Wesley J. Smith

When science becomes ideology or quasi-religion, it ceases to be science and becomes something else. The brilliant political analyst Michael Barone has weighed in on this concern in a new column (which also deals with gun control, beyond our scope here.) He notes that despite the constant propaganda . . . . Continue Reading »

What Rat learned when he drove through the San Francisco Bay Area. Goat must be from . . . . Continue Reading »

This comes very close to an outright death threat—without quite being one. An animal rights terrorist supporter named Jason Miller has strongly hinted that a UCLA animal researcher could be murdered, and indeed seems to hope that it will happen. From a preface to his piece against animal . . . . Continue Reading »

Science has a good piece in the current issue exposing the hype that has permeated embryonic stem cell research advocacy and its reporting by media. In “A Stem Cell History Lesson,” (no link, here’s the abstract), University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researcher James M. . . . . Continue Reading »

Secondhand Smokette and I caught the Star Trek prequel today, and I thoroughly enjoyed it as a fun adventure, but more precisely, as a loving homage to the original series (which I used to watch in the dorm in college, can you believe it?). What was fun is that the young actors playing Kirk, Spock, . . . . Continue Reading »

We have discussed the suicide proselytizing in the media and popular culture here many times on SHS. But this story hits the nail! A woman with MS named Angela Harrison watched a television drama in which the protagonist went to Switzerland for suicide tourism—and then killed herself. From the . . . . Continue Reading »

Washington State’s assisted suicide controversy continues to burn. Articles keep coming out complaining that patients who legally qualify for help in killing themselves are being refused, while hospitals and physicians continue to exercise their right under the law to opt out. From the latest . . . . Continue Reading »

The times in which we live can be so disheartening: The swine flu—known in its politically correct name as H1N1 Flu—appears not to have become the deadly pandemic some feared. But rather than be relieved, some are carping that the government engaged in fear-mongering. From the story: Did . . . . Continue Reading »

Hedonism—the scratching of every itch, indulgence of very impulse, breaking of nearly every norm—is very much central to our ongoing coup de culture that is replacing Judeo-Christian/Humanistic society with one based in utilitarianism/hedonism/radical environmentalism. Hedonism has . . . . Continue Reading »

The lexicon we use in discussing bioethical issues is important. And look how this newspaper does it in a poll to measure attitudes about refusing unwanted treatment. From the story:PATIENTS’ lives are being artificially “extended beyond what they actually want for themselves”, . . . . Continue Reading »