Wesley J. Smith

Paul Ehrlich has been wrong about nearly everything, and yet, remains a prophetic voice for some. Tim Chivers takes him down a needed couple of notches in The Telegraph.  From, “Paul Ehrlich Still Prophesying Doom, and Still Wrong:”So, let’s take a look at some of his . . . . Continue Reading »

When I was young, I was in a car with friends driving past a large Veteran’s cemetery, and noting all the tombstones, sparked gales of ridiculing laughter when I exclaimed, “Wow, there sure are a lot of dead people in the world!”Knowledge of our own death is . . . . Continue Reading »

I think this is a step too far.  Canadian pediatricians are discharging patients whose parents refuse to permit inoculations. From the The Star story:Pediatricians in Canada are starting to discharge children whose parents refuse to have them vaccinated. More and more, doctors are taking a . . . . Continue Reading »

Surgical abortion is—surgery.  But now, a bill has been introduced in the California Legislature to allow non doctors to perform this life-taking surgery. From the San Francisco Chronicle report:As states across the country are passing laws to restrict access to abortion,  California . . . . Continue Reading »

I am concerned that Western society is threatened with two metastasizing twin crises of competence and character.  Science is not immune from larger cultural forces, and thus two recent stories worry me that the dual afflictions have spread to science too.First, it appears . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh brother.  A woman named Faye Flam, who writes the Planet of the Apes blog for the Philadelphia Inquirer about evolution—Get it? We’re all just apes. Get it?—has written a distinctly unevolutionary blog supposedly word processed by her cat Higgs, in which the cat attacks . . . . Continue Reading »

I marvel at how the supposed defenders of SCIENCE so often conflate the method with ethical and policy controversies.  Case in point: A Yale law professor named Adam Cohen, writing at the Time website, is upset that Tennessee is allowing teachers to (voluntarily) teach their students . . . . Continue Reading »

James Lovelock, the radical environmentalist who came up with the idea that the Earth is a living organism, has poured cold water on his own previously raging global warming hysteria. From the MSNBC story:James Lovelock, the maverick scientist who became a guru to the . . . . Continue Reading »

IVF has always been a form of human experimentation—which costs the subject’s (the baby) parents a lot of money—since we jumped head first into the technology without fully knowing the potential consequences. And now, decades later, we are finding that people born from IVF have . . . . Continue Reading »

For all the screaming about Republicans cutting Medicare, Obamacare cut it by $500 billion. The law provided that the bite begin this year. Oops. That could hurt the president’s reelection chances. So, the spending has been maintained by pretending existing Medicare programs are experimental! . . . . Continue Reading »