Wesley J. Smith

PETA won’t like it, but this underwater treadmill run was actually a scientific study testing the fitness of shrimp. The good news is that it wasn’t on the U.S. taxpayer’s . . . . Continue Reading »

David Martosko is with the food industry-financed Center for Consumer Freedom, aka PETA’s Worst Nightmare. David’s genius is that he is as edgy and committed to fighting animal rights as PETA is in advocating the ideology. (The Center created the “PETA Kills Animals” . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote about the pending voter initative in California (Prevention of Farm Cruelty Act) that would, among other matters, outlaw “battery cages” for the housing of hens. I posted the HSUS argument in favor of the initiative here. Now, an egg industry representative has sent along . . . . Continue Reading »

Panel one: The front page of the PETA Chronicle:(Bad Reporter is a consistently funny political strip that runs three times a week in the SF Chronicle. Asmussen’s great riffs on current events takes on all sides and are consistently funny. Check it out here.)The Crocs continue to ignore the . . . . Continue Reading »

Scientists are telling us to mind our own business about issues such as embryonic stem cell research and human cloning. Apparently, in their hubris and arrogance, they believe that only their ideas about ethics matter. From the story: Politicians have been warned not to block scientific inquiry into . . . . Continue Reading »

I am sure PETA will claim this is a vindication, but instead the entire saga demonstrates that even the animal rights activists don’t really think that animals are the same as people. Readers of SHS will recall that two PETA workers picked up cats and dogs—some that were . . . . Continue Reading »

I have long worried about our celebrity-crazed culture and how it celebrates dysfunction and brings ruin to hyper-celebrities and average people alike. Rather than challenging us to greater levels of virtue, service and achievement—that is, to the greater exercise of human . . . . Continue Reading »

This is rich: Richard Dawkins—whose official website claims modestly to be “a clear thinking oasis”—made an incredible statement in the new movie Expelled, asserting that it is “an intriguing possibility” that space aliens “seeded” life here on Planet . . . . Continue Reading »

The Drudge Report has become America’s Front Page, to the point that even the New York Times and other newspapers try to get publicity for their stories by leaking them ahead of time to Drudge, a man the MSM once despised. Thus, when Drudge thinks a story is important, it comes to the . . . . Continue Reading »

After all the howling and moaning, after all of the demagoguery against President Bush’s ESC funding, after being warned darkly that the day of US dominance in science was over, it turns out that we lead the pack, after all. From an editorial in the Financial Times As the FDA hearings . . . . Continue Reading »