Wesley J. Smith

Secondhand Smokette and I decided to go on a date and, against our better judgment, went to see The Day the Earth Stood Still. We expected some enviro-propaganda, but I must say it was even more extreme than I expected. I wrote about it over at the First Things blog:Earth pushes the mantra of . . . . Continue Reading »

My wife and I decided to go see The Day the Earth Stood Still , which, based on reviews, we expected to be radically green. But it is much more than that. Earth pushes the mantra of deepest ecology: Humans are the literal enemy of Earth, which, the script strongly implies, is a living entity. At . . . . Continue Reading »

I have written several times about Dr. Hootan C. Roozrokh, who was once accused criminally of trying to hasten a patient’s death with drugs after he didn’t die when his respirator was removed prior to a planned organ procurement. Dr. Roozrokh had no business even being in the operating . . . . Continue Reading »

What an expensive joke the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has become. Conflicts of interest are rife, leading to a Little Hoover Commission investigation. Management meltdowns have mixed with an incredible sense of entitlement and hubris. Hundreds of millions that were promised to go . . . . Continue Reading »

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jay Bookman has written a difficult but, I think, important column on the distinction between the moral value of a beloved dog coming to the end of its life and those of human beings. Any pet owner can only have great empathy for the grief Bookman is . . . . Continue Reading »

The Department of Health and Human Services will publish its Final Rule tomorrow protecting the rights of conscience for health care workers who refuse to perform medical acts with which they morally disagree. The rule specifically applies to abortion and sterilization. But it also has a general . . . . Continue Reading »

In this edition of What It Means to be Human, I get into conscience clauses as a potential way for us to co-exist together, given our profound cultural differences over what I call “an emerging culture of death.” I conclude: I strongly support the rights of conscience for health care . . . . Continue Reading »

Can you imagine the if ” the experts” suggested that genetic tests be done on all pregnant women to screen for supposedly undesirable racial characteristics or a propensity for homosexuality (if that could be done), with the goal of vastly reducing the number of babies born with those . . . . Continue Reading »

I have written about Philip Nitsckhe before. He is the Australian doctor who is obsessed with suicide machines and making sure that anyone who wants to kill themselves be able to do so, including—as he stated in an NRO interview—“troubled teens.” With the new . . . . Continue Reading »

This is obviously a brilliant parody. But it made me think about the same kind of junk advocacy I have heard from politicians pushing embyronic stem cell and human cloning research. We have been told that embryos aren’t really embryos, they are just cell balls. We have been told that the act . . . . Continue Reading »