Wesley J. Smith

Put this post in the Total Conjecture File. A story about the decline in male fertility and increasing birth defects among male babies got me to wondering: Is it possible that human biological evolution can be impacted by the changes in perception caused by radically evolving cultural trends? From . . . . Continue Reading »

We get stories like this from time-to-time: There was Washoe the chimp who could supposedly converse intelligently through sign language that turned out to be training and subtle prompts. And now, a researcher has written a book about her claims that a parrot named Alex the parrot had the . . . . Continue Reading »

Biologist/atheist polemicist Richard Dawkins, whose WEB site is self-described as “a clear thinking oasis,” seems to be having trouble in that department of late. First, in an interview with Ben Stein in Expelled, he claimed that it is an “intriguing possibility” that life on . . . . Continue Reading »

We have an organ shortage that desperately needs ameliorating. With such pressing needs, some wish to bend or even break important ethical rules by, for example, obliterating the dead donor rule so that people can be killed for their organs.We can’t go down that road, but if it works, we can . . . . Continue Reading »

Mary Pilcher Cook is a terrific politician who is right as a good rain on the issues we cover here at SHS. I have just heard from Mary and learned that she won her seat to the Kansas Senate by a comfortable 10% margin. I am thrilled. She is the kind of young leader who stands on principle that this . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the most important services that medical professionals can offer to the people they serve, I think, is to declare their offices and facilities to be “assisted suicide free zones.” Indeed, I hope that medical organizations create plaques and certificates to that doctors and health . . . . Continue Reading »

The UK has apparently promulgated a hyper-detailed set of regulations governing the treatment of animals. Rather than properly guard against actual abuse, it also bans permitting dogs to beg at the table and cats kept from looking out windows. From the story: The guidelines cover the environment for . . . . Continue Reading »

The culture of death once again has the wind in its sails after being moribund, at least as to assisted suicide, since 1994. There are many reasons for the loss having to do with the overwhelming financial backing from all around the world in favor of assisted suicide, to a popular former governor . . . . Continue Reading »

Racy television shows may promote teenage sexual behavior. From the story: Exposure to some forms of entertainment is a corrupting influence on children, leading teens who watch sexy programs into early pregnancies and children who play violent video games to adopt aggressive behavior, researchers . . . . Continue Reading »

Of course, anyone reading SHS and pondering this matter rationally, would realize that once assisted suicide/euthanasia consciousness becomes widely accepted, the categories of the terminated expand. And now, waddya know, a study of assisted suicide in Switzerland shows that an increasing number of . . . . Continue Reading »