Wesley J. Smith

As I wrote this week in the Weekly Standard, the uncontroversial umbilical cord blood stem cell bill is ready to be passed. Senator Frist has unanimous consent among Republicans to get it to the floor for a vote, but one or more unnamed Democrat senators are obstructing. According to the National . . . . Continue Reading »

So, the UK government has stated that the NHS may refuse medical treatment for smokers and the obese if their conditions might mean the treatment would be less efficacious or not cost effective. This is neo Puritanism. Following this logic, people with multiple sex partners should not be treated for . . . . Continue Reading »

Now, South Korean academics at Woo-Suk Hwang’s own university want independent verification that he actually created cloned human embryos and extracted tissue-specific embryonic stem cells from them. Earlier this week, Hwang’s lab said that there would be no independent verification . . . . Continue Reading »

Not bad for a time in which the country is supposedly being led by anti-science . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a good article on the potential of adult blood stem cells to treat heart disease. I am glad it was reported by Time. But I can’t help gnashing my teeth at the bad science reporting that is epidemic in the mainstream media about embryonic stem cells, to wit: “Unlike other . . . . Continue Reading »

This story in the Telegraph is stupid. Israel has passed a law permitting life support to be terminated. That isn’t euthanasia as it is now commonly understood: It is ending unwanted life-sustaining treatment.I am not criticizing Jewish law, but the legal analysis engaged in by the Israeli . . . . Continue Reading »

MIT Associate Professor James Sherley has much to say in this interview about cloning, adult stem cell research and, in my view, one of the great unreported stories of our time: the fact that so many scientists feel that if they come out against cloning they will be branded anti-science and face . . . . Continue Reading »

I know I wrote an article on this type of media bias just a few days ago. But, they just keep on coming. Perhaps, I should start collecting the erroneous/inaccurate descriptions of somatic cell nuclear transfer and therapeutic cloning published in newspapers and use them for wrapping paper. . . . . Continue Reading »

I find the JDRF very puzzling. They put more than $1 million into Proposition 71, yet when Harvard Researchers cured late stage juvenile diabetes in mice with adult spleen stem cells, you could hear the crickets chirping at the JDRF. Even though the FDA has approved the Harvard team’s project . . . . Continue Reading »

First we had the case of the sold eggs that were supposedly donated. Then, American researchers back away from Hwang’s cloned embryonic stem cell banking scheme. Then, one of his female scientists mysteriously disappears. Then, high school girls in Korea volunteer to donate eggs, as cloning . . . . Continue Reading »