Wesley J. Smith

This blog is written in real time. It is primarily commentary, not journalism, in the literal sense.  It also seeks to engage readers in discussions about the cutting edge issues of human exceptionalism, bioethics, animal rights, scientism, radical misanthropic environmentalism, . . . . Continue Reading »

I did a small post on Secondhand Smoke that I thought might be of interest to First Thoughts readers.  A Presbyterian pastor apparently considers transhumanism inevitable, and even, consistent with Christian views.  I think “Christian transhumanism” is an oxymoron.  Here . . . . Continue Reading »

A Presbyterian pastor/ethicist named Mark Douglas has apparently claimed that transhumanism is consistent with Christian theology. Pshaw. They are theologically diametrically incompatible.  From the Toledo Blade story:Theologically, one can find support in the Bible for . . . . Continue Reading »

Jennifer Lahl—I call her, “She Who Walks Through Walls”—founded the Center for Bioethics and Culture in 2000, and had the wisdom to bring me on as a paid consultant (he said modestly).  Over the last 12 years, the  CBC has really been doing very energetic and . . . . Continue Reading »

So, a pal and I go to see The Three Stooges last night: Woob! Woob! Woob! Woob!  I just wanted to forget the world and revisit my long lost boyhood when my friends and I would roar at the Stooges on TV after school.The movie was almost perfect. It really captured the spirit . . . . Continue Reading »

A Canadian pundit named Kelly McParland has a good critique of how IVF has devolved procreation into consumerist reproduction.  He writes in reaction to an American IVF clinic advertising sex selection, meaning that all embryos of the “wrong sex” become medical waste based on . . . . Continue Reading »

The Swiss are preparing the ground to ration health care. They don’t have enough doctors and many people can’t afford their share of the cost of treatments.  Then, a judge limited the money that could be spent on a patient’s care!  From the Swissinfo.ch story:Doctors . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a piece out in the Human Life Review decrying the “unrepentant bigotry” that allows people with profound disabilities to be denegrated as “skin bags” (as one example), or if profoundly cognitively disabled, as mere flora.  From “That Unrepentant . . . . Continue Reading »

Today is National Sign an Advance Directive Day, or something like that. And the stories are out trying to stimulate us to action. As I have noticed when proposals to legalize assisted suicide are reported, they are all the same. It’s cookie cutter journalism: Start with a horror . . . . Continue Reading »

Meanwhile, at the suicide swimming . . . . Continue Reading »