Wesley J. Smith

The media is touting Advanced Cell Technology’s claim to have helped improve the vision of rats using human ES cells. If true—with ACT and Robert Lanza always verify given all of the lies that they have told—it is an advance in ESCR. But it is worth noting that rat adult stem cells . . . . Continue Reading »

The Swiss prove the point oft made here, in testimony before government bodies, and in my articles on the subject, that assisted suicide isn’t really about a “safety valve” for the dying for whom nothing can be done to alleviate suffering—the usual sound bite of domestic PAS . . . . Continue Reading »

Big Biotech is shoveling tens of millions into a propaganda campaign to convince the American people to embrace ESCR and human research cloning. Toward these ends, a new book is being published by an academic house called The Stem Cell Wars, by Eve Herold, Director of Public Policy Research and . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been asked to provide more details of the incident, mentioned in a previous entry, in which James Kelly was forcefully prevented from telling Christopher Reeve about advances in spinal cord injury research using adult stem cells. I am happy to oblige. Here is Kelly’s account of the . . . . Continue Reading »

These stories are ubiquitous but I report them here from time to time because it is worth keeping in mind that adult stem cell research is moving forward at a very nice pace in human patients. First, Australian researchers are reporting in early studies that adult stem cells can indeed help treat . . . . Continue Reading »

James Kelly is an activist friend of mine who is solidly against ESCR and human cloning. Years ago he was in a terrible automobile accident that left him paralyzed—and he has devoted himself ever since to seeking a method of treatment that will help him walk again. He once supported ESCR, and . . . . Continue Reading »

For years I have been predicting that futile care treatment withdrawals will become the next big bioethics agenda issue to roil the public and involve the courts. Now, the futile care imposers are beginning to roll out the agenda. This Michigan case may be one. Emmie-Rose Yannella, a prematurely . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a good and fair article from the Chicago Tribune (one of the fairest of the MSM in my view), about the growing challenge to Texas’s futile care law. The push back the story reports against the abandonment of patients under futile care theory in Texas is very encouraging. (Attorney . . . . Continue Reading »

Good grief. Now the animal liberationist nuts are freeing halibut from fish farms. Well, stealing them actually. This isn’t “mere” vandalism. It is felonious theft that is depriving honest and hard working entrepreneurs of the fruit of their labor merely because the crazies . . . . Continue Reading »

The more the proponents of Amendment 2 spend, about $16 million to date, almost all from James Stowers of the Stowers Institute, who is determined to buy a constitutional amendment, the worse the measure does. This poll of likely voters shows it with 52% yes, down from above 60% when the initiative . . . . Continue Reading »