Wesley J. Smith

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) would be laughable if it weren’t so expensive and engaged in funding immoral research with borrowed money that I and every other Californian will have to pay back. The latest shinanigan was exposed by the Foundation for Taxpayer and . . . . Continue Reading »

Mr Johnson should start a blog. That’s what I . . . . Continue Reading »

One of my pet peeves—yes, I know, I keep peeves like a crazy old man who keeps hundreds of cats—is off label prescribing. Off label prescribing allows a drug that has been approved for efficacy and safety for one condition, to be used instead to treat a different malady for which it has . . . . Continue Reading »

I cannot believe the disaster that is befalling the health care system in the UK. Now, it turns out that patients are leaving hospitals malnourished! From the story:Some 140,000 people are discharged from hospital while underweight every year, and most are never diagnosed or treated, nutritionists . . . . Continue Reading »

This is good. It is a human obligation—and a proper role of government—to ensure that our food animals are slaughtered humanely. There are rules and regulations in this regard and USDA inspectors at slaughter houses to maintain proper standards.Apparently, the Hallmark/Westland Meat . . . . Continue Reading »

The shamans of scientisim are growing increasingly strident. Yesterday, we discussed advocacy for creating a world authoritarianism to impose scientific consensus policies about global warming. Apparently, Dr. David Suzuki, the Canadian geneticist turned television star, has opined that politicians . . . . Continue Reading »

I have warned repeatedly that we suffer from “expertitis,” my term for the tendency to hand the most important policy decisions over to “experts.” Now, a well known environmental author named David Shearman has written an hysterical piece urging that we toss aside democracy . . . . Continue Reading »

I am often asked where people can see recordings of my speeches. The Discovery Institute just posted online one I made there last year, called “Why Being Human Matters: Bioethics, Animal Liberation, and the Threat to Human Exceptionalism.” Hit this link, and I will appear after a very . . . . Continue Reading »

Philip Nitschke, as I have repeatedly written, believes essentially in death on demand. He says so again in the wake of the suicide of woman he “counseled:”“Nitschke insisted that healthy people of sound mind, who were mature enough, should have the right to take their own lives if . . . . Continue Reading »

I reported yesterday on the shameful and criminal firebombing of Dr. Edythe London’s house. One commentator thought I might have jumped to a conclusion. But the despicable ALF has now bragged about their felonious conduct. From the anonymous press release: After promising to return if she . . . . Continue Reading »