Wesley J. Smith

There is a column in The Gurdian that illustrates vividly the ugly reality of assisted suicide. The writer Jon Ronson followed some suicide facilitators around, and found that their “compassion” leaves much to be desired. For example, Susan (a pseudonym), is trained by the euthanasia . . . . Continue Reading »

Ryan T. Anderson has an interesting entry over at the First Things blog about an ethics conference he attended at Princeton. It makes for sobering reading. He begins with a quote from Princeton philosophy professor Elizabeth Harmon. From his column: “Look, when we think about ending an early . . . . Continue Reading »

In which we learn that Pig moonlights as a Swiss . . . . Continue Reading »

I uploaded a video from YouTube and posted it here at SHS the other day that depicts a fight over the fate of a calf among lions, a crocodile, and the calf’s herd of cape buffalo. I have heard from a few readers that it no longer works. I’m not sure why that is. I suspect that is because . . . . Continue Reading »

When a vegetarian falls off the wagon:The latest research sparks more controversy in the evolution debate: . . . . Continue Reading »

This remarkable video depicts a desperate fight between a crocodile, a pride of lions, and a herd of cape buffalo over the life of a calf. No “animal rights” here. No “right” not to suffer here. No “cruelty” here, either. This is the tooth and claw struggle of the . . . . Continue Reading »

An illustration of how modern names . . . . Continue Reading »

I just did a little research on where SHS’s 30,000 visits each month (and slowly going up) come from. Most, not surprisingly, come from the good ol’ USA. But I am very gratified to learn that people come here literally from all over the world. In the last month, f0r example, 583 visits . . . . Continue Reading »

An intrepid reader sent me this on-line syllabus from a bioethics course at the University of Washington Medical School. I checked on the link protocol and the author Nancy Jecker, Ph.D presumes that the right to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment already exists. From the syllabus:While you . . . . Continue Reading »

Biological colonialism (as I call it) is a real and growing international problem, in which rich Westerners pay destitute people for kidneys, the use of their wombs, and potentially coming soon to a poor country in Asia or Africa, for eggs to do mass human cloning. I have reported on some of the . . . . Continue Reading »