Wesley J. Smith

Regular readers will have noticed that there were no new posts here at SHS for about a week. That wasn’t because I had nothing to say. (That will be the day!) Rather, and I won’t use the bad words that are in my mind, Blogger would not upload to my FTP.It got so bad, and I became so . . . . Continue Reading »

Terminal Non Judgmentalism Alert: An important professional journal aimed at pediatric nurses has discussed killing sick and profoundly disabled patients with studied neutrality.This is precisely how the Culture of Death permeates our society. A bioethical practice once almost universally condemned . . . . Continue Reading »

My friend David Martosko—who is the driving force behind the industry sponsored Center for Consumer Freedom—has a piece in today’s Seattle Post Intelligencer about the need to spend Leona Helmsley’s bequest to dogs on their welfare rather than animal rights proselytizing. . . . . Continue Reading »

A GP in the UK is accused of prescribing a suicidal elderly patient an overdose knowing that she wanted to die so as to not be a burden on her family. He’s in the soup. From the story:Dr Iain Kerr appeared before a General Medical Council (GMC) hearing in Manchester accused of prescribing . . . . Continue Reading »

I have written about Spain’s plan to pass the Great Ape Project (GAP) here at SHS previously. Now, I have a more extended piece on the issue in the current Weekly Standard on. From the article:But why grant apes rights? After all, if the Spanish parliament deems these animals insufficiently . . . . Continue Reading »

My colleague at the Discovery Institute, John R. Miller, has a piece in today’s New York Times on slavery. Slavery is an important matter impacting human exceptionalism that I have covered here at SHS, but not nearly enough. Thank goodness for Miller-whose work at the State Department on this . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t put much stock in studies such as this, but since animal rights activists are ever about the purported unhealthful nature of meat, it may be that tofu increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. From the story: Eating high levels of some soy products - including tofu - may raise . . . . Continue Reading »

Regular readers of SHS know that I am critical of the trend to let “the scientists” decide what is ethical and what our public policies should be. That not only subverts science by mutating it into an ideology or social movement rather than a method (scientism), but is nuts because . . . . Continue Reading »

Sigh: The NHS continues to collapse and I continue to report—but even I don’t post all the stories, striving as I do to keep SHS varied and interesting. But this can’t be overlooked: The NHS has been accused of “conveyor belt” childbirths. From the story:Women are . . . . Continue Reading »

The Boston Globe is reporting how far Haleigh Poutre has progressed since bioethicists, social workers, and courts decided to dehydrate her to death. From the story:Haleigh, now 14, has stayed for more than two years at Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton, where she is described as a . . . . Continue Reading »