Wesley J. Smith

I have been waiting for this: Spain’s government may be the most radical in the free world, controlled as it is by Socialists and Greens. It is personalizing fauna by preparing to legalize the Great Ape Project, and has pursued other agendas on the progressive agenda with vigor. Yet, so far, . . . . Continue Reading »

With the Swiss declaring “plant rights” and castigating the “decapitation” of wild flowers, it was only a matter of time before these ideas came to San Francisco. I can’t prove it yet, but the evidence is beginning to come in. In this morning’s Leah Garchick . . . . Continue Reading »

There is a story out today that I find very disturbing, for it both reflects the apparent urge among some organ professionals to cross crucial ethical boundaries and promotes public confusion about when someone can be properly declared dead. It involves heart transplants from babies and implies . . . . Continue Reading »

It may not yet be a full fledged exodus, but it would appear that the tide has changed dramatically. Where just a few years ago the clamor to overturn the Bush policy was touted throughout the media and among the politicians of the Science Establishment, it now appears that many of the world’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Whites will cease being the majority by 2042, the Census Bureau reported, to which I reply, “So what?” Human life is what matters, not the fiction of racial differences. From the story: In a new report out Thursday, the U.S. Census Bureau projects the nation will become much more diverse . . . . Continue Reading »

A little while back I wrote a piece for National Review Online called “Veganism is Murder.” The thesis of the piece was that while many animal rights activists claim that “meat is murder,” vegans also live off the deaths of animals due to the perhaps billions of mice, snakes, . . . . Continue Reading »

Who says that the value of human life is on the wane? In Scotland, a man murdered his wife, and because he has dementia, the judge has banned him from pubs rather than sending him to jail. From the story:Lord Matthews told the defendant: “You were found guilty of the culpable homicide of your . . . . Continue Reading »

This is the future that Futile Care theorists hold for us. If you sign an advance medical directive granting a proxy the right to make your health decisions on your behalf in the event of incapacity—and that proxy wants life support ceased—that decision is sacrosanct, and woe betide the . . . . Continue Reading »

As if it were really needed, here is further proof that animal research is absolutely necessary to the alleviation of human suffering and finding treatments for terrible afflictions: Scientsts have been able to recreate Alzheimer’s disease in mouse models which will permit the affliction to be . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been researching the purported genetic near-identity between humans and chimps— asserted as the “scientific” basis for the Great Ape Project—and found (unsurprisingly) that the entire advocacy line that “humans and chimps share 98% of our genes” is plain . . . . Continue Reading »