Wesley J. Smith

Here in the UK, the NHS is all the news. It is bleeding red ink. Money problems are apparently leading toward health care rationing. The BBC had a big story about elderly people being denied coverage for care that might have been due under the rules of the Service. And yet the assisted suicide . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been hearing from some folk that my post on Wilmut taking false credit as the cloner of Dolly is much ado about nothing. It was his lab, this thinking goes, so who cares who actually came up with the concept and did the actual work?Well, apparently some scientists do. Wilmut received a . . . . Continue Reading »

Apparently several people are now claiming credit for Dolly now that Ian Wilmut admits he didn’t actually do the . . . . Continue Reading »

I will be in the UK for the next week speaking and meeting people about the euthanasia threat over there and sundry other bioethical issues. Probably won’t get to Blog much. But you never know. I am interested in comments on the Hippocratic Oath controversy. Please feel free to weigh in. . . . . Continue Reading »

Bradford Short is an Anglophile, with a capital A. He knows his English history. He has jumped to my defense on the Hippocratic Oath issue. It is too long to post here, but this link will take you to his Blog entry at The Fact Is. Thanks for covering my back, . . . . Continue Reading »

This longish thoughtful response to my column on the Hippocratic Oath is worth posting on its own. This physician believes the Oath is a “living document,” that must change with the times. Well, doctors sure don’t swear by Apollo anymore, but I think this idea of a living Oath . . . . Continue Reading »

Bill Gates gave $400,000 to fund the campaign for Proposition 71. In other words, he was willing to pay chump change—for him—to help persuade the people of California—already tens of billions in debt—to dig even deeper into our empty pockets to chase after the rainbow of . . . . Continue Reading »

The Christian bioethicist Nigel Cameron published a book on this matter some years ago, called The New Medicine: Life and Death After After Hippocrates. For those interested, here is the Amazon . . . . Continue Reading »

This is unbelievable: Ian Wilmut has admitted that he did not clone Dolly the sheep. The more we learn about the cloning agenda, the less honesty there appears to have been in the field from the very start.Wilmut has acknowledged in a court case that he did not develop the technology that led to . . . . Continue Reading »

The International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the ongoing debates around the world to legalize mercy killing. I am honored to be an attorney and consultant for the organization. Indeed, Rita Marker and Kathy Hamlon of the Task . . . . Continue Reading »