Wesley J. Smith

Oprah Culture, named after the hyper successful daytime television powerhouse Oprah Winfrey, is soap opera in real life—which in the cause of destroying moralism so that nobody feels badly over their various dyfunctions—extols people pushing the envelope of cultural values, those . . . . Continue Reading »

Tell me we aren’t on the path to using human beings as mere produce: A UK bioethicist has called for using fetal organs from abortions in transplantation. From the story:Kidneys and livers from aborted foetuses could be given to the desperately ill and ease the organ donor shortage, a leading . . . . Continue Reading »

The sense of entitlement is so thick, so embedded within the genome of the biotech research community, that apparently no matter the extent to which they are catered, it is never, ever enough. Only days after they got virtually all they claimed they wanted from President Obama, some scientists are . . . . Continue Reading »

We’ve had a real growth spurt here at SHS. In the last month. We have gone from about 30,000 visits and 25,000 discreet visitors every thirty days to nearly 40,000 visits from about 31,000 visitors. And the last few days have had about 2000 visitors a day. We’re not the Daily Kos or . . . . Continue Reading »

I am applauded and criticized for my comments about President Obama’s rescission of the Bush “alternative method” executive order over at Belief Net—from the version of the criticism I posted on the First Things blog, which contained slightly different language than I put . . . . Continue Reading »

I’m finally getting around to reading President Obama’s stem cell speech. It contains the usual bromides about how we are in danger of falling behind in science, yadda, yadda, yadda. But it also seems oddly oxymoronic to me. First he said: I can also promise that we will never undertake . . . . Continue Reading »

The New York Times’ editorial extolling the lifting the Bush stem cell funding policy—as it ignores the purely gratuitous trashing of the Bush order requiring funding for “alternative sources”—is the usual mix of ignorance and ideology that typifies its side’s . . . . Continue Reading »

We all know that President Obama rescinded the Bush funding restrictions for ESCR. But that isn’t all he did today. He also rescinded Executive Order 13435 of June 20, 2007 . The Administration didn’t publicize this part of the President’s nasty work, but the now dead 2007 Bush . . . . Continue Reading »

We all know that President Obama rescinded the Bush funding restrictions for ESCR. But that isn’t all he did. He also rescinded Executive Order 13435 of June 20, 2007.What is that? Of course, the Administration didn’t have the candor or courage to publicize this part of his nasty work, . . . . Continue Reading »

I have looked more closely at the awful Idaho futile care bill, S 1114, which I first addressed earlier today. Here are two more extremely objectionable clauses that show the intent to create a duty to die for the most infirm—and expensive for which to care—among us. From section394504A . . . . Continue Reading »