Wesley J. Smith

I did an interview with a Catholic radio show last Friday that focused pretty hard on assisted suicide, futile care, eugenics, hospice, and bioethics. It was a call-in show and a couple of hospice nurses called offering some interesting comments. If you want to hear me spout hot air and emit . . . . Continue Reading »

You know it’s really getting ugly when the British Medical Association, not exactly known for radical agitation, may urge its member doctors to walk out of the UK’s National Health Service. From the story:A mass exodus of GPs from the NHS is being considered by the British Medical . . . . Continue Reading »

As a California resident, I am painfully aware that my state is sinking in a red sea of debt. Yet, the borrowing to support human cloning research continues. Last week, Investor’s Business Daily noticed and in “The Bullet Missed,” argues that the time has come for a little fiscal . . . . Continue Reading »

This time in the UK, using a patient’s own bone marrow to attempt to treat heart attack damage. From the story:British scientists have been given the go-ahead to begin potentially ground-breaking experiments using injections of stem cells to repair patients’ damaged hearts. The team . . . . Continue Reading »

We continually hear from the brave new world crowd that only religion would cause one to oppose ESCR and human cloning. That isn’t true, of course., One need not be religious to have serious reservations about using nascent human life as a mere natural resource.Here’s some evidence . . . . Continue Reading »

Dusty should be careful of what he asks for. I went off Atkins precisely because I felt as if meat was coming out of my ears. . . . . Continue Reading »

The FDA has determined that meat and milk from cloned animals are safe to consume. But some people would rather not consume cloned products, thank you very much. A proper answer to such consumer desires is labeling: Meat, milk, cheese etc. can be labeled clone free. From the story: Although the FDA . . . . Continue Reading »

There is a brutally honest essay in the New York Times Magazine about the dismaying number of young girls in Indonesia whose parents force them to undergo the genital mutilation that goes by the euphemistic term, “female circumcision.” It is an awful story of the worst kind of misogyny, . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, cry my a river: Craig Barnett, chairman of Intel, boo-hoos about the supposed lack of science funding by the Feds in a whining column in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. He writes:The recent budget deal between Republicans and Democrats effectively flat-funds or cuts funding for key . . . . Continue Reading »

There is an alarming story in today’s San Francisco Chronicle, byline Sabin Russell, that illustrates how life evolves to ensure that no matter how far we advance scientifically, death will always remain part of the experience of living. A terrible antibiotic-resistant strain of staph bacteria . . . . Continue Reading »