Wesley J. Smith

Just last month, I reported about a cancer study that was found to have manipulated data. Now, according to the Sunday Times, a scientist cooked his data to create a seeming connection between autism and a vaccine. From the story: THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine . . . . Continue Reading »

I have posted on the Nadya Suleman matter and her having eight children via IVF. I have also done several radio interviews and have made the following points. First, this is an unregulated field and doctors can basically do just about whatever they like legally. Second, why should we be surprised? . . . . Continue Reading »

When the President of Italy refused to sign a decree delaying the dehydration death of Eluana Englaro—who some call the Italian Terri Schiavo—it seemed to seal her doom. But now the Prime Minister has moved up an emergency session of the Parliament.We’ll see how that plays out. But . . . . Continue Reading »

My kind of furniture!A look into the future unless the bias . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote yesterday about a terrible 2006 Florida case, in which an infant allegedly survived an attempted abortion only to be put in a medical waste bag by the owner of the clinic. The doctor didn’t show up in time—resulting in the live birth of a baby girl at 23 weeks. Well, today he . . . . Continue Reading »

This could be bad. Cass R. Sunstein, just appointed by President Obama to be “regulatory czar,” is a big “quality of life” guy in determining the cost/benefit ratio of government regulations. This is the executive summary of a paper he wrote back in 2003 for the Joint Center . . . . Continue Reading »

Dolly the sheep was cloned because the administrator Ian Wilmut, and the team that did the deed, hoped to create a herd of genetically altered sheep through cloning and inserting human genes that would result in the sheep producing milk containing properties that could be extracted and turned into . . . . Continue Reading »

This says a lot that is wrong at our universities—where social outlaws are celebrated and given huge speaking fees—and with the murderer Jack Kevorkian. At his recent speech at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, he had an American flag behind him with the Swastika in the field of . . . . Continue Reading »

We have discussed the case of Eluana Englaro, who has been unconscious since an auto accident in 1992. Her father won a court order to remove her feeding tube. But for awhile, all hospitals and nursing homes refuse to participate in her dehydration. Mr. Englaro then found a facility that would, but . . . . Continue Reading »

This is an awful, awful story: The photo at left is of a 22-week prematurely born infant. According to the AP—no pro life outlet—a more developed infant survived a late term abortion in Florida only to be put in a plastic bag and thrown out by a staffer at the abortion clinic. From the . . . . Continue Reading »