Wesley J. Smith

The human cloners want thousands and thousands of eggs to try and win the Nobel Prize by becoming the first scientists to successfully clone a human embryo and derive embryonic stem cell lines. (Remember, Wu-suk Hwang used more than 2000 eggs to derive zero stem cell lines.) But the cost of this . . . . Continue Reading »

I love it when those who think they are smarter than the great unwashed, who at least believe in something rather than nothing, presume to talk down their noses—but are the ones who actually get it wrong. Atheist crusader, Sam Harris, is apparently one such advocate. I bring this up because I . . . . Continue Reading »

A broad based coalition of disability rights activists, pro lifers, and family members of ill patients are planning to pressure the Texas Legislature to change its ridiculous futile care law that permits hospital ethics committees to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment. The hospital associations . . . . Continue Reading »

Human exceptionalism seems so self evident to me that I am somewhat nonplussed that it is even considered debatable. Yet, a growing chorus adamantly deny that humans are entitled to a special status. But many would-be exceptionalism debunkers seem to be skeptical as a means of achieving a particular . . . . Continue Reading »

A reader of my recent article in National Review Online about Peter Singer’s approval of research conducted on monkeys, misunderstood me as perhaps not caring about cruelty to animals. I care very much about such matters, of course, and mentioned in my reply that treating animals humanely is a . . . . Continue Reading »

I would normally post a video as effective as this one is at deconstructing PETA directly from YouTube onto Secondhand Smoke. But the title contains an epithet, and I couldn’t sanitize it here on the site no matter how hard I tried. Penn also has several foul mouthed moments, of which I . . . . Continue Reading »

This really illustrates how bad some of the animal rights/environmental crazies have become. This list of “eco prisoners” and animal rights prisoners is published by something called the Earth Liberation Prisoner Support Network (ELP).Among the prisoners the group wants to support is Ted . . . . Continue Reading »

And those advances keep coming in from all directions: The BBC is reporting that within three years or so, a patient’s own adult stem cells may be able to relieve back pain caused by damage to intervertebral discs (IVDs, a common cause of debilitating low back pain. Bone marrow, don’t . . . . Continue Reading »

Animal rights law professor and vegan activist Gary Francione has now weighed in at some length in his Blog about Peter Singer and his support for invasive brain research using monkeys. It is very hard hitting, and, it seems to me, hits a home run regarding amoral Singer-style . . . . Continue Reading »

I thought it was pretty significant that Peter Singer endorsed research on monkeys, and very invasive research at that—brain experiments. But the American media ignored the story, so I decided to kick up a little dust.I was quite impressed with Gary Francione, who I interviewed by e-mail. He . . . . Continue Reading »