Wesley J. Smith

I knew it! According to the Sunday Times (London), North Korea kills disabled infants and has a virulent eugenics policy. “The latest description of Kim Jong-il’s policy of state eugenics came from a North Korean doctor,” A story in the Times states, “Ri Kwang-chol, who . . . . Continue Reading »

A California Appeals Court has rejected an appeal against a lawsuit filed by Chiron Corporation seeking damages and other legal remedies against Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, USA (SHAC) for harassment and invasion of privacy, based on supposed first amendment grounds. Here is what the animal . . . . Continue Reading »

Here is proof positive that the international drive to legalize assisted suicide/euthanasia is not really about terminal illness. The World Federation of Right to Die Societies has reissued its “Manifesto.” Here it is in full. I will discuss the italicized portions of the Manifesto . . . . Continue Reading »

I could be wrong, but I suspect that all of this money being thrown at research cloning could end up in a new “dot-com” type bust—only this time with public money since private investors are generally shunning investing in cloning companies. This story that a pet cloning company . . . . Continue Reading »

I was interviewed for an hour today on KKSZ, “The Eagle,” out of Columbia, Missouri about Amendment 2, the initiative that would create a constitutional amendment in MO to do human cloning research. I blistered the proponents for their disingenuous advocacy and discuss other issues, such . . . . Continue Reading »

Euthanasia BluesThis disability rights video protest song, written by Norman Kunc, is a withering critique of the euthanasia movement. Check it out! (Here is a link to Kunc’s WEB . . . . Continue Reading »

We shouldn’t be surprised that Princeton’s bioethics professor Peter Singer supports genetic engineering of progeny—as he does in this article. After all, Singer rejects the idea that human life has intrinsic value and supports infanticide of babies up to one year of age based on . . . . Continue Reading »

In a terrible irony, four Israeli doctors have been arrested for conducting unethical medical experiments on the elderly. I keep warning that when we lose sight of the crucial understanding that each human has intrinsic value simply and merely because he or she is human, terrible consequences . . . . Continue Reading »

We hear continually from the elites of bioethics about how people diagnosed as permanently unconscious (persistent vegetative state, or PVS), are no longer persons, and thus, they can be treated as if they were not fully human. That is abhorrent in any event, but the PVS diagnosis is often wrong, as . . . . Continue Reading »

The Scientist (no link available) has written a courageous article—for this day and age—claiming that the Bush Administration aren’t just a bunch of anti-science Luddites, after all. It is not my purpose here at Secondhand Smoke to boost President Bush. But as I wrote last week in . . . . Continue Reading »