Wesley J. Smith

Secondhand Smoke and Smokette have put up the Christmas lights and trimmed the tree. We look forward to a time of refreshment and the hope of the season with family and friends. For those of you who celebrate Christmas, please accept my most heartfelt best wishes for a blessed and merry holiday to . . . . Continue Reading »

Fifteen months after being intimidated by animal rights/liberation thugs into not listing the parent company of Huntingdon Life Sciences, the New York Stock Exchange-Arca has done the right thing, and listed the company, permitting it to raise capital. Why the sudden show of backbone? Perhaps it was . . . . Continue Reading »

This experiment determined that “adult stem cells in a specific region of the mouse brain have a built-in mechanism that allows the cells to participate in the repair and remodeling of damaged tissue in the region...’The results were very surprising,’ says [Chay T.] Kuo. ‘Our . . . . Continue Reading »

An Indian court has granted damages to the owner of an elephant killed in an auto accident because the pachyderm was “on par” with a human because it could obey commands and do tricks, etc. Well, then the owner had better be charged with slavery, because you can’t own humans but . . . . Continue Reading »

Brave New Britain is at it again. Cloning researchers have been given the right to ask women to donate eggs for use in biotechnological experiments. Before now, egg procurement for research had to be done in association with fertility or other medical treatments.Thousands of eggs will surely be . . . . Continue Reading »

Robert Schindler, Terri Schiavo’s father, has had a stroke and is in a hospital intensive care unit. He is conscious. At present, the doctors are trying to stabilize his condition. Once that is done, he will be transferred to a rehabilitation center. His family, always a class act, is at his . . . . Continue Reading »

Best selling author Michael Crichton warned in last Friday’s Wall Street Journal (no link available) that people’s cells and body substances are no longer necessarily their own, once removed from the body. Scientists can use your cells and blood to conduct research upon, and if they are . . . . Continue Reading »

Facts don’t matter any more, only narratives. And now this deconstruction of reality is infecting biology and medicine. I have previously described here and in my other writing about how the term human embryo has been redefined from a scientific understanding, meaning the human organism from . . . . Continue Reading »

Which of the following hypotheticals do you believe is most likely to happen in 2007?President Bush’s ESCR funding policy will be overturned.California and/or Washington State will legalize assisted suicide.Adult stem cell therapies will restore mobility to paralyzed people.The Netherlands . . . . Continue Reading »

“Cloning research ‘clearly upsets the general public’ yet it has limited potential for treating disease and adds little to scientific understanding of human biology, according to Professor Austin Smith of the University of Cambridge...’Its prominence is out of proportion to . . . . Continue Reading »