Wesley J. Smith

The essence of euthanasia consciousness has never been about “choice,” but about deciding that certain lives are not worth living. And, it leads inevitably to justifying infanticide since killing to end suffering has been redefined from bad to good. If that is your basic view, then in . . . . Continue Reading »

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Regular readers of Secondhand Smoke know that I am absolutely fuming about the propaganda effort by cloning boosters to redefine terms and obfuscate basic science. I will be writing much about this in coming months. Whether SCNT is human cloning is one of the threshold issues in the upcoming . . . . Continue Reading »

An Iowa television station is following the story of Amy Foels, who was paralyzed in an auto accident. Last year, she went to Portugal and received an adult stem cell treatment from Dr. Carlos Lima, who pioneered a regenerative therapy that uses the patient’s own olfactory stem cells.Amy has . . . . Continue Reading »

I recall being in Canada a few years ago and the newspaper front page headline warned that 900,000 Ontarians had no primary care physician, despite having the right to one under the Canadian system. In other words, it was almost as if they were uninsured, meaning they had to get urgent care from . . . . Continue Reading »

I had the opportunity to meet Michael Fumento on a recent trip to Washington DC. I found him as knowledgeable in person as on paper. Here is an example, in which Fumento describes how science journals are being politicized. This seems a real problem to me. At least on the issues in which I am . . . . Continue Reading »

Piglet islet cells transplanted into pancreases have effectively treated diabetes in monkeys. The technique is now ready for early trials in humans. Add this study to the successful cure of juvenile diabetes in mice using spleen cells, and we may see that there are many hopeful approaches to . . . . Continue Reading »

This is pretty remarkable: Apparently researchers were able to morph human ES cells into prostate gland cells, implant them in mice, and they grew into a complete gland. The researchers claim that this technique will help them gain better understanding of prostate diseases such as cancer.I . . . . Continue Reading »

This column in the Guardian (by college lecturer Dylan Evans) about the supposed inevitability of transhumanism is, I think, overly pessimistic. Evans worries that the social pressures set in motion by transhumanist technologies will one day force most people to enhance their children genetically . . . . Continue Reading »

The venerable political columnist John Leo has weighed in on a favorite pet peeve of mine; the ubiquitous use of euphemisms rather than accurate descriptive language to describe facts or actions that are controversial or disturbing. He speaks of euphemisms used in areas as far ranging as plane . . . . Continue Reading »