Wesley J. Smith

I was pretty teed off about the Canadian doctors trying to force Hassan Rasouli off of wanted life-sustaining treatment. Then, when I found out that even though they were absolutely wrong in their “certainty” that he would never wake up, they still were considering trying to force . . . . Continue Reading »

What hubris. Shawn Lawrence Otto, of Science Friday on NPR, suggests that science has just outgrown democracy, don’t you know.  We need the experts to be in charge.Otto lists some of the outstanding benefits society has unquestionably received from science, and then more than suggests . . . . Continue Reading »

The Occupy orcs are back demanding free this and free that, while at the same time, seeking to destroy the very means and systems by which such services and wages could be paid.But for our purpose, the Occupiers want ecocide criminalized, so we can treat the earth as a living being and put . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh dear. Carl Elliot, a bioethics professor, has written a blistering critique of his own field in the Chronicles of Higher Education. Elliot is angry because Pfizer has created a fellowship in bioethics and has takers, which he views as fraternizing with the . . . . Continue Reading »

The British Medical Journal reports that Canadian doctors are seeking Canadian Supreme Court authority to withdraw wanted life-extending treatment. From the May 10, 2012 story (abstract only):Canada’s Supreme Court will next week consider an appeal from two Canadian doctors who . . . . Continue Reading »

A Time cover photo will appear in the next magazine that is beyond shameful. It shows a woman, looking defiantly at the camera, one breast being suckled by her son standing on a chair. (I won’t add to his injury by posting the photo here. If you want to see it, . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama stated the obvious yesterday when he supported gay marriage. That issue is beyond our jurisdiction here. However, I would be remiss if I failed to note the president’s hollow hypocrisy when he claimed to “respect” religious institutions that disagree—given his . . . . Continue Reading »

I warned in Culture of Death: The Assault on Medial Ethics in America that the bioethics movement had ambitions to influence life and public policy well beyond its sphere of influence in medicine and health-related laws and regulations. The title of an article published in . . . . Continue Reading »

At the risk of bringing the roof down on my head...The same California legislature that passed a law allowing minors to obtain abortions without any notice to parents, now has a bill pending that would prevent psychotherapists from providing services intended to alter a gay child’s . . . . Continue Reading »

This isn’t about the election, it is about our culture having developed such a strong sense of entitlement to what we want that norms and mores must fall to accommodate our desires. IVF often falls into that category.I bring this up (again) because one of Mitt Romney’s sons Tweeted . . . . Continue Reading »