Wesley J. Smith

Here’s how the pro embryonic stem cell/human cloning advocacy game is played. First, the public faces of patients and their loved ones promise CURES! CURES! CURES! Then, when you call the campaign on the mendacity, they claim, “The scientists have never said that in . . . . Continue Reading »

I know Nat Hentoff. Nat Hentoff is a friend of mine. And Wesley, you are no Nat Hentoff.No kidding, Wesley!  But I was heartened to read an article exposing the profound intolerance of many on the Left against one of their own because he became pro life. It tells how Nat—who . . . . Continue Reading »

The global warming hysterics like to use selective dating of data and times for measuring and contrasting to make things look hotter than they were. Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, for example, omitted data about the time he was in office.  Now, it looks as if evidence has been discovered . . . . Continue Reading »

Why should we believe anything the Medical Establishment tells us anymore?  For years we have been told, screen for cancer, get annual physicals, wellness exams, pap smears, etc. beyond etc.—that’s the ticket to better health and lower healthcare costs.Then, we had the move to . . . . Continue Reading »

A new drug that will soon be requested for approval to the FDA appears to delay serious symptoms and perhaps, extends the lives of women with breast cancer. From the NYT story:T-DM1 delayed the worsening of disease by about three months. For those who received T-DM1, the median time before the . . . . Continue Reading »

I think there is more to this story than an eye roll. Delusional or paranoid people used to insist they were Napoleon or Jesus Christ, or perhaps that the CIA or space aliens had implanted electrodes in their fillings to track their every move. Now, apparently, these mental illnesses are playing out . . . . Continue Reading »

Here we go again! The push to transform the most ill and disabled living human bodies into so many organ farms continues among some bioethicists and within organ transplant ethical discourse. Now, an article in the American Journal of Bioethics, written by organ . . . . Continue Reading »

The political left just does not get the concept of “death panels,” and/or intentionally conflate it with ethical approaches to refusing treatment in order to confuse people for political purposes.  This is clear from a Time summary of Joe Klein’s cover story . . . . Continue Reading »

Those who oppose animal research have to defend against this kind of very hopeful experimentation. Scientists have restored feeling in paralyzed rats using electrical and chemical stimulation of injurd spinal cords. From the MSNBC story:Scientists in Switzerland have restored full movement to rats . . . . Continue Reading »

A new Obama campaign ad, Dreams of Our Daughters—get it, a take off of Obama’s bio, Dreams From My Father—depicts a mother with two daughters going through a happy day.  (It is amazing how men barely exist in Obamaland, but I digress.)  The Mom speaks about her . . . . Continue Reading »