Wesley J. Smith

Animal rights radicals who engage in ALF and SHAC terrorism presume to put on the mantle Martin Luther King and Gandhi, claiming that their threats, bombings, vandalism, identity theft, harassment, and intimidation is right out of the civil disobedience playbook. And PETA refuses to condemn, . . . . Continue Reading »

Adherents to the “quality of life ethic” and those of a utilitarian mindset would have been quite content to see the little girl who is the subject of this story die, rather than live with the cognitive and developmental impairments caused by having half her brain surgically removed. . . . . Continue Reading »

I was interviewed by Albert Mohler last week about human exceptionalism, Spain being poised to legalize the Great Ape Project, Ecuador and “nature rights,” PETA, and other matters. Mohler is the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and he comes to issues from a . . . . Continue Reading »

A study has found that people with serious cognitive impairments who are conscious—people who are routinely dehydrated to death in most states—feel pain. From the story: Severely brain-damaged patients in a “minimally conscious state” may still feel pain and require . . . . Continue Reading »

In another study under-reported by the MSM because it cuts against assisted suicide, UK researchers found that about a quarter of assisted suicide requests in Oregon were depressed, and yet received lethal prescriptions. From the story:Now a new study shows one-in-four patients who requested lethal . . . . Continue Reading »

I am sure that Sarah Palin’s feelings are very hurt that the total animal rights crackpot Brigitte Bardot doesn’t like her and calls here a disgrace to women. From the story:“By denying the responsibility of man in global warming, by advocating gun rights and making statements that . . . . Continue Reading »

The ALF wing of the animal rights movement always wants it both ways. They want to be able to coerce, intimidate, threaten, bomb, vandalize, scare children, terrorize families, trespass, and commit other acts of bullying—and they presume themselves to be walking in the shoes of Gandhi and . . . . Continue Reading »

This is the kind of “science” story that drives me crazy. A scientist hypothesizes that “human evolution is over”—and it is taken seriously. From the story:Human evolution is grinding to a halt because of a shortage of older fathers in the West, according to a leading . . . . Continue Reading »

As I write these words, the stock markets around the world are tanking in the wake of a nearly trillion dollar bailout that the experts designed to prevent this very collapse. Oops.Financial issues are not what we do here, but I think there is an aspect of the financial crisis . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, this could be very interesting—or awful. Apparently CBS has a new series starting next week called The Eleventh Hour. And it seems to cover many of the issues we discuss here at SHS. From the PR Internet site: Humankind has survived devastation: Famine. Plague. Predators. Insects. . . . . Continue Reading »