Wesley J. Smith

In researching for my book on animal rights, I tried to get an interview with PETA’s alpha wolf, Ingrid Newkirk. She declined and through her assistant, suggested I obtain her views from her books and articles. So, I have been doing a little on-line research and came across Newkirk’s MY . . . . Continue Reading »

This front page story in the SF Chronicle, byline Bernadette Tansey, needs comment.A San Carlos startup is offering to create “personalized” stem cells from the spare embryos of fertility clinic clients on the chance that the cells, frozen and stored away, may some day help a family . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a piece in the current Weekly Standard about the “food and fluids” controversy, an issue I have repeatedly considered. I hit several notes in the article. I challenge the falsehood that the federal bill to save Terri Schiavo’s life was purely a Republican enterprise. Not . . . . Continue Reading »

Remember when the vaccine was developed to protect against the virus that causes cervical cancer? And remember the drive by Merck Pharmaceutical to make inoculations of 12-year-old girls mandatory?—a campaign assisted by by too many politicians and media commentators for what appeared to me to . . . . Continue Reading »

The UK’s NHS is in a meltdown. I didn’t blog it due to traveling, but did you see the story that people are pulling their own teeth because they can’t get good dental care through the NHS? And now, apparently record numbers of Brits are traveling abroad for health care because they . . . . Continue Reading »

Take this story with a huge grain of salt: Apparently a professor has warned that due to transhumanist-like modifications and eugenic mating decisions (my words), the human race will split into two branches, one beautiful, intelligent, and lithe, the other ugly, short, and brutish. From the story in . . . . Continue Reading »

“The scientists,” by which I mean the politicized advocates for a financial and ethical blank check in human cloning, genetic engineering, and other awesomely powerful biotechnologies, are upset. The poor babies are grousing about the potential for government regulation—in the UK . . . . Continue Reading »

Alta Charo is a wild booster of ESCR and human cloning research. We have gotten along fine when I have debated her, even when she accused me in a luncheon keynote address at last year’s Albany bioethics conference of being a part of the forces that are threatening an “endarkenment” . . . . Continue Reading »

In “The Eugenics Temptation,” Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson hits some nails on the head about the odious James Watson and the new eugenics. He surveys some of the obnoxious, racist, and anti-disabled statements Watson has made over the years, and then connects some dots. (He . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the exceptional attributes of the human race—unknown in any other species in the universe—is the importance we place on our personal and family histories. No other species worries about who grandma was or the circumstances that led to their birth.I learned first hand the emotional . . . . Continue Reading »