Wesley J. Smith

This is so typical: The San Francisco Business Times has a three paragraph story about ACT garnering $13 million in the wake of its hyped ESCR experiment. First, the story states that ACT is an Alameda, California company. In actuality, it is a Worcester, MA company that opened a California office . . . . Continue Reading »

This is good. Senators James Inhofe (R-OK) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA, have introduced the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, to strengthen current laws to better help law enforcement fight animal rights terrorism. I haven’t read the statute yet, but if it is limited to animal using industries, . . . . Continue Reading »

Whilst we are contemplating what it means that a woman diagnosed as PVS is actually cognitive, as determined by MRI tests, let us not forget this very interesting development from a few months ago. Remember, when Ambien apparently aroused three PVS patients in S. Africa, permitting them to interact . . . . Continue Reading »

My last blog entry was about the notorious Philip Nitschke introducing his “peaceful pill” suicide concoction at the World Federation of Right to Die Societies bi-annual convention. I almost missed this little factoid in the news report about his appearance. “After a year of . . . . Continue Reading »

Euthanasia radicals are always trying to pretend that all they want is access to assisted suicide for the terminally ill in unbearable pain for whom nothing can be done to alleviate suffering. This is a false premise, of course. But it is not the true agenda of the movement, which is really about . . . . Continue Reading »

I can’t let it go: I just can’t.A lot of people thought about poor Terri when it was revealed that a British patient diagnosed as PVS was clearly interactive, based on MRI testing. That brought to many people’s minds, mine included, the request of Terri’s folks that she . . . . Continue Reading »

This is interesting, but not for the reasons proponents might claim. Gallup asked this question:When a person has a disease that cannot be cured do you think that a doctor should be allowed by law to end the patient’s life by some painless means if the patient and his family request it?69% . . . . Continue Reading »

In his usual excellent fashion, Michael Fumento has taken the blade of truth and eviscerated the mendacious Advanced Cell Technology. He hits a few points I have not here at Secondhand Smoke, and they are definitely worth recounting: Whereas I have focused primarily on the MSM’s bias, he . . . . Continue Reading »

Sophisticated brain scans of a woman diagnosed to be in a persistent vegetative state has revealed startling levels of activity. Indeed, it may indicate that she is aware.The description of the patient in question is startlingly similar to Terri Schiavo: “Scientists don’t even agree on . . . . Continue Reading »

As the ACT mendacity continues to roil the biotech debate, a former scientist at the company, Jose Cibelli, has achieved an advance that might one day lead to the ability to revert normal body cells into an embryonic state. (I once debated Cibelli and found him to be a thoroughly nice guy.) Cibelli, . . . . Continue Reading »