Wesley J. Smith

I was speaking at a bioethics conference in Phoenix on Saturday. At lunch the sponsors asked me to come with them because somebody wanted to meet me. It was Jesse Ramirez and his sister and family! What a wonderful surprise. Here was a man that had been consigned to dehydrating to death and who . . . . Continue Reading »

Animal liberationists and those under their sway are striving to put the animal testing lab Huntingdon Life Sciences out of business, by hook or by crook, including tertiary targeting and terroristic threats. This is a test case for the future of animal industries.Another wrongful tactic toward this . . . . Continue Reading »

Edythe London is a researcher at UCLA who has been victimized by terrorist threats and an attempted bombing by animal liberation criminals. Such assaults forced one of her colleagues out of the lab. But she is hanging tough. And now, she tells us why she uses animals in scientific research in a . . . . Continue Reading »

This document from the NIMH about preventing suicide seems rather weak to me. For example, in describing what to do if someone is suicidal, the NIHM states:If you think someone is suicidal, do not leave him or her alone. Try to get the person to seek immediate help from his or her doctor or the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Washington Post prominently reports a syndicated story, byline Steven Reinberg of HealthDay News, that stem cells have restored memory in mice. Those would be embryonic stem cells that the media and “the scientists” continually insist offer the “best hope” for such . . . . Continue Reading »

This editorial in the Charleston Gazette is so despicable it is hard to know where to begin. In applauding the Federal Court’s decision not to extradite George Exoo at the request of Ireland for allegedly assisting the suicide of an Irish woman, the editorial makes the most disgraceful, . . . . Continue Reading »

The fix is in for New Jersey voters to go $450 million in debt to fund embryonic stem cell research, now that the courts have permitted a bogus ballot description to go out to voters. Few voters will read the initiative itself, but you can here. (It was very hard to find the actual wording of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Readers of SHS and my other work know that Zolpidem—which goes by the brand name Ambien—can sometimes awaken people who have been diagnosed as permanently unconscious. Here is the story in the Daily Mail of another such “miracle” in the UK: A woman who has been in a coma for . . . . Continue Reading »

Disgraceful!Hampshire College in Amherst, MA is permitting animal rights terrorists to hold a planning session on campus. Included on the program will be Jerry Vlasak, who has advocated the murder of animal researchers.Also note the connection between anarchy (smash the state) and animal liberation . . . . Continue Reading »

These kind of stories are so infuriating. A researcher seeking to ameliorate or cure human diseases has her home flooded by animal rights terrorists because they presume the right to coerce others to accept their ideological perspectives. From the LA Times report:An FBI spokeswoman said Monday that . . . . Continue Reading »