Wesley J. Smith

Some global warming hysterics seek to make us all poor to save the planet. How else explain a National Geographic blogger named Stephen Leahy telling us that we should let indigenous people teach us how to live a low carbon lifestyle. From “Indigenous Peoples Can Show the Path to . . . . Continue Reading »

And another one bites the dust.  Polar bears and their supposed decline are the mascots of global warming hysteria. As a consequence, we hampered our prosperity in the USA by legally restricting energy creation based on the apparently very wrong notion that polar bears are . . . . Continue Reading »

I am not a German lawyer, and so I don’t know if this is dispositive or merely the first step in a longer legal process. But a German administrative court has apparently ruled that the ban on physician-assisted suicide is too “general,” whatever that means.  From the UPI . . . . Continue Reading »

Back when the ICU was the big profit center, people complained that they were often ”hooked up to machines” until death, even when they just wanted to stop or go home to die. Then, when the ICU became a potential big money loser due to capitation, we began to hear more complaints . . . . Continue Reading »

David Brooks rarely gets it right, I find.  But he mostly did in his last column about a man named Charles Darwin Snelling. Brooks had earlier extolled Snelling’s essay about how caring for his Alzheimer’s-stricken wife had “humanized” him.  But . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh good grief. First, UK Prime Minister David Cameron decided to launch a “gross emotional prosperity” index to measure his countrymen’s ”happiness.” Then, Peter Singer embraced the idea, writing that international policies should have as their goal the . . . . Continue Reading »

We keep being told that Obamacare will not lead to health care rationing.  But bubbling in the MSM editorial pages and the medical journals, rationing is all the rage.One of the earliest advocates was the bioethics pioneer Daniel Callahan, who has long advocated in books and journal articles . . . . Continue Reading »

Oakland is a terrible wreck of a city. Terrible violence. Gang infestation. Not enough cops. Awful political leadership.  A disgraceful school system in which widespread malfeasance borders on misfeasance in education, often cheating students out of their futures.  I used to live . . . . Continue Reading »

I grow weary of that certain species of political animal who constantly complains that too many people are “anti science,” when in reality, they disagree with the advocate’s policy desires about issues that involve scientific research.  Example in point: . . . . Continue Reading »

The MSM is deeply invested in cutting medical costs by reducing the levels of expensive medical treatments provided to the elderly and very ill unlikely to improve or be cured.  Persuasion is one aspect of this game.  (The other is promoting coercion, as in rationing.) That is why we . . . . Continue Reading »