Wesley J. Smith

The terrorist pimp Jerry Vlasak, reacting to a judge’s refusal to lift a restraining order against ALF and others who have made the lives of UCLA animal researchers a living hell through threats of death, bombs left on doorsteps, etc., has issued a clear threat of violence that is barely even . . . . Continue Reading »

There is a huge lesson to be learned in this story, but we won’t learn it and the media won’t highlight the issue—lest we come to the “wrong conclusion” about Terri Schiavo. Haleigh Poutre, who doctors swore would never recover, and state bureaucrats consigned to . . . . Continue Reading »

I would be more comfortable about this tremendous potential advance in healing serious wounds if it were reported in a peer reviewed medical journal rather than the sensationalistic Daily “Halle Berry Shows She’s a REAL Mom as Dress Reveals Post Baby Tummy” Mail, but the story . . . . Continue Reading »

Why humans have nothing to do with the threatened extinction of a certain sub-subspecies of . . . . Continue Reading »

Research on the new Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells continues to advance. Now, scientists have morphed them into heart and blood cells. From the story:Stem cell researchers at UCLA were able to grow functioning cardiac cells using mouse skin cells that had been reprogrammed into cells with the same . . . . Continue Reading »

I posted here at SHS a few days ago about a story reporting that Peter Singer would receive a cool $20 Gs for speaking at Arizona State University in Phoenix. I didn’t mention that I was interviewed for some time by the reporter but was not quoted. Nothing unusual there. I am often interviewed . . . . Continue Reading »

The UK is debating a new bill to govern the ethics of creating embryos. Part of the bill would outlaw putting animal sperm into human eggs. But the reverse is not mentioned and at least one scientist is concerned. From the story:A leading scientist has warned a new species of “humanzee,” . . . . Continue Reading »

The latest Dutch euthanasia statistics are in, and the number of cases reported have gone up. From the story: The number of cases of euthanasia reported by doctors last year rose to 2,120 from 1,923 in 2006, according to official figures published this week, reports ANP news service. In three cases . . . . Continue Reading »

All around the country and the world, scientists who don’t fall in line on human cloning, global warming, neo-Darwinism, and other issues in which the Science Establishment demands lockstep thinking, find themselves being pushed aside—ironically, by the very types who vociferously . . . . Continue Reading »

This is exciting news and demonstrates once again that most biotechnology isn’t morally contentious. A teenager with failing eyesight has had his vision improved by inserting healthy genes to correct a genetically caused disability. From the story: In the trial carried out by a team at the . . . . Continue Reading »