Wesley J. Smith

As the world celebrates Earth Day, that term has become a bit ominous. Alas, healthy environmentalism is devolving into an increasingly anti-human movement that could end up costing the human race dearly. I have a piece on the matter in today’s NRO called ” Homo Sapiens, Get Lost . . . . Continue Reading »

As usual, I find myself the skunk at the party. As the world celebrates Earth Day, that term has become a bit ominous. Environmentalism is devolving into an increasingly anti-human movement that could end up costing the human race dearly. I have a piece on the matter in today’s NRO called . . . . Continue Reading »

How many times are the media going to act as Charlie Brown to would-be cloners’ Lucy Van Pelt promising to hold the football? First it was the Raelians making utter and complete fools out of media all over the world by claiming that the first cloned baby named “Eve” had been born. . . . . Continue Reading »

Please pardon this lengthy post, but in light of our recent conversations about the organismic status of the early embryo as biological human life, I thought it was worth discussing how and why the term came to be redefined to exclude early embryos from membership in the human race.The story is . . . . Continue Reading »

There is only one domestic suspected terrorist on the FBI’s “most wanted terrorist.” His name is Daniel Andreas San Diego, who hails from my neck of the woods in Berkeley, CA. San Diego has been on the run for years after allegedly bombing a local company that refused to promise to . . . . Continue Reading »

Considering the continual revisionist biology about what constitutes a human embryo we have heard in the halls of Congress and from among some members of the science intelligentsia, I thought it worth revisiting an old Nature editorial that decries the sophistic attempt within bioethics and the . . . . Continue Reading »

A famous global warming scientist issued an alarming study today finding that too much sex is a major cause of global warming. “All that heavy breathing releases tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere,” Dr, Raymond Sunburn, the head of the Aspen/Davos Collective’s think tank, . . . . Continue Reading »

It is an intentional tactic on the part of some who push for the instrumental use of nascent human life to make the sophistical argument that human embryos are not really organisms until they implant in a uterus. Ironically, these advocates make this bogus claim in the name of boosting science. But . . . . Continue Reading »

Considering the discussions we have had here as to what constitutes a human embryo, I thought it worth revisiting an old Nature editorial that decries the sophistic attempt within bioethics and the life sciences to pretend that an embryo before implantation in a uterus isn’t really an embryo. . . . . Continue Reading »

Last month, Tim Kaine the Governor of Virginia, signed into law a bill that prohibits the state from funding embryonic stem cell research . From the story : Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has signed a bill into law banning the use of some state funds for . . . . Continue Reading »