Wesley J. Smith

Secondhand Smokette, better known as Debra J. Saunders, has an excellent column in today’s San Francisco Chronicle castigating the animal rights terrorists who are attacking animal researchers. (I should point out that she was writing about the dangers of animal rights before I ever did.) From . . . . Continue Reading »

One Summer Johnson takes exception to my SHS post suggesting that egg selling be banned. (Whimper). From his entry:Somehow it seems unjust to me to ask women to undergo what all acknowledge to be a difficult, painful, and for some women risky process to donate eggs—whether for altruistic or . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a very good column in The Australian, that debunks global warming. But that is not why I bring it up, as we don’t discuss the ins and outs of that issue here. In “Climate Hysterics v Heretics in An Age of Unreason,” Arthur Herman shows how science devolves into . . . . Continue Reading »

This is what I wrote in Culture of Death (page 69, paperback version), which first came out in early 2001:The attitude that it is better to die than live cognitively disabled has triumphed so completely in our medical culture that some doctors now report a rush to write off newly unconscious . . . . Continue Reading »

The animal rights fanatics are getting closer and closer to killing somebody. In the most recent attacks, UC Santa Cruz researchers were the victims of firebombs. One was a car, the other was of a house—with people in residence! From the story:In the off-campus incident, a well-known molecular . . . . Continue Reading »

The Economist has a dopey editorial about “gene doping” in this week’s magazine. It is along the lines seen so often in our debates about culture and biotechnology, paraphrased as “we are already on the slippery slope, so we might as well enjoy the ride,” or “the . . . . Continue Reading »

Washington State columnist Angie Vogt has written a good piece that pierces the dark heart of assisted suicide advocacy to reveal what lies beneath the paeans to compassion and choice. From her column, “Assisted Suicide is a Dying Movement:” Nihilism: A philosophy that argues that life . . . . Continue Reading »

Even the animals apparently have had enough of PETA . . . . Continue Reading »

Once one accepts the premise that suicide is an acceptable answer to the problems of human suffering and ennui, there are no boundaries that will hold for long. Example: EXIT is apparently getting ready to assist the suicides of elderly people who are tired of living—announced by an assisted . . . . Continue Reading »

Critical Care Medicine, the journal for intensive care doctors, has published a study (no link available) of the Texas futile care law (Crit Care Med 2007 Vol. 35, No. 5), which allows hospital ethics committees to order unilateral termination of life-sustaining treatment, and only gives patient . . . . Continue Reading »