Wesley J. Smith

My “vegan is murder” piece stimulated a lot of interest. One correspondent alerted me to a controversy in Canandaigua, N.Y. Apparently, the Canandaigua Academy’s “chicken project” has, in the past, had a class of students each year raising chickens and then slaughtering . . . . Continue Reading »

Scientific American, an anything goes pro-cloning magazine, has two articles out dealing with the future of human cloning. The focus is on Ian Wilmut, who administered the team that cloned Dolly, who planned to pursue human SCNT cloning but then eschewed it in favor of iPSC research. The whole thing . . . . Continue Reading »

As promised a few weeks ago, I have expanded upon my original thoughts about the killing of field animals in plant agriculture and how that impacts the “meat is murder” meme pushed by animal rights activists. It is published in today’s NRO. I describe how field animals are killed . . . . Continue Reading »

I was on a radio show today and told about an op/ed piece in the NY Times by Steve Ross, who is involved with cognitive research of primates with the Lincoln Zoo, that, the host implied, seemed to go along with the ethics of the Great Ape Project. I hadn’t read it, so I thought I should check . . . . Continue Reading »

I read an op/ed column in today’s SF Chronicle by a pundit I don’t know, Tom Teepen, that ranted hysterically about something called the Colorado “Human Life Amendment” that will appear on November’s ballot. From his column:There will be immediate consequences if the . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, to live to see the day! (Hint: Look at his . . . . Continue Reading »

Regular readers of SHS will (I hope) recall the comment I made the other day about an article in the Journal of Pediatric Nursing that was so neutral on infanticide, it seemed to me to be greasing the skids toward moving policy toward professional permissability. In that entry, I said in . . . . Continue Reading »

If this is true, it is huge. A breakthrough in preventing tissue rejection may permit animal parts and organs to be transplanted into humans—a process known as xenotransplantation. From the story:Blood vessels, tendons and bladders from animals are to be used in humans for the first time . . . . Continue Reading »

I was doing a little research and came across an article of mine, “Depressed? Don’t Go See Kevorkian,” published in the New York Times all the way back in 1995. Anyone interested, can check it out here.Then, I thought I would see whether the very first piece I ever published about . . . . Continue Reading »

The purveyors of popular culture never tire of pushing the euthanasia/assisted suicide agenda. We see it in movies, often made from pro-assisted suicide books, e.g., Million Dollar Baby, The Sea Within, One True Thing. Many of the top television dramas have had pro-assisted suicide themes, sometimes . . . . Continue Reading »