Wesley J. Smith

The Gray Lady has now officially noticed in print the radical attacks on human exceptionalism represented by Ecuador’s granting rights to nature and Spain on the verge of passing the Great Ape Project. No, of course it doesn’t frame it that way! Indeed, the story is rather . . . . Continue Reading »

I wasn’t planning on exploring the Vatican’s new bioethics pronouncement. But the media’s reportage does bear some discussion. Scientific American’s story, for example, contains the following subheadline: Mischaracterizations of science lurk in the Vatican’s latest . . . . Continue Reading »

Earlier this week, I posted a new feature on the site that counted unique visitors and the country each is from. The vast majority of those who come here are from the USA, Canada, the UK, and Australia. But I am honored to note that people from 82 countries have come here just since I added that . . . . Continue Reading »

This is an interview with the filmmaker who made the pro assisted suicide film of a man with motor neurone disease (ALS) receiving assisted suicide. He admits he did it as as advocacy effort to get us to accept the hemlock. The man who died shared the agenda.The filmaker says the Terri Schiavo case . . . . Continue Reading »

Human exceptionalism is under attack from every corner, and I think it is driving us crazy. Popular culture is part of the problem. Apparently, the new movie The Day the Earth Stood Still has aliens destroying the human race in order to save the planet. In the coming attractions, we see cities like . . . . Continue Reading »

Ethical regenerative medical research, coupled with animal experimentation, is leading toward the alleviation of tremendous amounts of human suffering. Israeli scientists have cured mice with type 1 diabetes. From the story: Lewis grafted healthy islets into diabetic mice and treated them with an . . . . Continue Reading »

The media usually report the assisted suicide agenda by, basically, printing the proponents’ press releases and pretending that it is objective news. But sometimes, it comes back to bite them, as when the PR is mendacious.Case in point: When a Montana judge legalized assisted suicide, the . . . . Continue Reading »

Kathryn Tucker, the lawyer for the euphemistically named Compassion and Choices, who won the trial court ruling establishing a right to assisted suicide in Oregon (and I contend, much more) has shown a bit of the real agenda behind the movement. In reacting to the victory, she suggested that the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Dutch seriously proposed permitting 12-year-olds to opt for euthanasia, and that was beaten back for the moment. Now, a new Scottish proposal to legalize assisted suicide would give the “right to die” to children. From the story:Children aged 12 or even younger could be given the . . . . Continue Reading »

Media is so pornographic these days, and not just about matters sexual. A Brit tabloid has published photos from an assisted suicide, depictions taken from a soon-to-be-aired television show. From the story:It will be the first time an assisted suicide has been shown on British TV and will be sure . . . . Continue Reading »