Wesley J. Smith

The Hunger Games was a very good movie.  I was surprised.  But who can be surprised that PETA would complain that starving people in the dystopian future depicted in the book and film hunted to stay alive?  Now, they have criticized Jennifer Lawrence, the star of the film, . . . . Continue Reading »

I oppose off-label prescribing. I oppose states legalizing medical marijuana when it should be done by changing the Controlled Substances Act.  I oppose novel interventions upon the disabled, such as “Ashley’s Treatment,” without proper regulatory studies and approval. I would . . . . Continue Reading »

I keep an eye on the anti humanism in radical environmentalism in my work defending human exceptionalism.  I have noted here and elsewhere that the ecocide brigades held a mock trial of fictional Alberta tar sands executives and—surprise!—found them guilty of extracting oil for . . . . Continue Reading »

My wonderful friend Mark Pickup has rerun an essay on his blog Human Life Matters by Dr. Dianne Irving on the history of bioethics.  Irving was present at the birth of the field, dissents strongly from the direction in which it went, and was very helpful to me in researching my own . . . . Continue Reading »

This has not made nearly enough news. A crucial chemotherapy drug is now in very short supply. Johnson and Johnson, the company that owns the drug, said way back in June, that the shortage was caused by equipment problems at the third party manufacturer.  Nearly a year . . . . Continue Reading »

The Center for Bioethics and Culture has a good film out called Anonymous Father’s Day, which deals with the emotional impact on children of sperm donors from not knowing anything about their biological fathers.  This too is a form of reproductive commodification and the consequences in . . . . Continue Reading »

National Review’s John Derbyshire has written a racist article at Taki’s Magazine, in which he envisions “the talk” about race relations with his children. Pertinent to the business of this blog, racism is a form of anti HE.Derbyshire traces what he claims to be the . . . . Continue Reading »

Scientists have announced that they have made mature eggs from ovarian stem cells. They want to fertilize said eggs and experiment on the embryos before destroying them after 14 days. From the Independent story:The first human egg cells that have been grown entirely in the laboratory from stem cells . . . . Continue Reading »

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DDT is a very effective pesticide, that helped the USA eradicate malaria as a health problem in the American South. But Rachael Carson blamed it for many environmental woes, and it became discredited.  Many, myself included, believe that millions of poor children and others in Africa and . . . . Continue Reading »