Wesley J. Smith

And the media wonder why they are so distrusted: The Orlando Sentinel continually describes Terri Schiavo’s medical condition as “brain dead.” This is clearly wrong. Brain dead is a popular term for death by neurological criteria and it means that the whole brain and every . . . . Continue Reading »

We have seen much wailing and gnashing of teeth in recent years by the usual suspects who repeatedly have insisted that the USA is falling behind in science due to President Bush’s stem cell funding policy and the supposed anti-intellectualism that they claim permeates society because many . . . . Continue Reading »

A Frenchman who suffered a severe heart attack has apparently spontaneously awakened after 1 1/2 hours without a normal heartbeat (but mechanical heart message). From the story: A man whose heart had stopped beating woke up just as surgeons were about to remove his organs for donation, it was . . . . Continue Reading »

A Swiss Court has banned the use of the macaque monkey in brain experiments. From the Nature story (no link):Zurich’s two largest institutes are appealing to the country’s supreme court after a lower court decided to ban two primate experiments studying how the brain adapts to change. . . . . Continue Reading »

From Leah Garchik’s “Public Eavesdropping” feature in the San Francisco Chronicle: “I don’t have a dad, I have a donor.”—One boy to another—do donor’s get ties on Father’s Day?—overheard in a kindergarten class by T. A. Francis.Worse . . . . Continue Reading »

As regular readers of SHS know, I am appalled by the terroristic assault on intellectual freedom and the rule of law by animal rights thugs against medical researchers. Delusionally thinking themselves akin to Gandhi and Martin Luther King, these nihilists commit arson, burglary, theft, blackmail, . . . . Continue Reading »

Hit this link to view a video presentation is by Calla Papademus, a young Stanford student who donated her eggs for a fertility treatment and suffered some serious health consequences. From an earlier story about her ordeal: For eight weeks last fall, Calla Papademas, a 22-year-old Stanford . . . . Continue Reading »

I was contacted over the weekend by the BBC. A radio program was dealing with the lawsuit being brought by Debbie Purdy to allow her assisted suicide. Purdy has MS and wants her husband to be able to take her to Switzerland for assisted suicide. But since he is not a citizen, she fears there could . . . . Continue Reading »

The myopia! In their misguided drive to squeeze every possible drop of profit from health care financing, health insurance companies are sealing their own doom with policies that restrict access to coverage. The latest comes from the American Medical News that reports companies intend to shrink . . . . Continue Reading »

I can hear the sound of the cash register: The Brit tabloids—aided greatly by Drudge and a more than willing pregnant transsexual Thomans Beatie—continue the PR blitz of the female pregnant man who is soon to give birth (in only 4 weeks!!!). See the bare-skinned pictures!!! They want . . . . Continue Reading »