Wesley J. Smith

The Court is allowing the lawsuits against Proposition 71 to go to trial on the merits. This means facts and evidence will be presented in open court, which could get very interesting. Before that, there will be an intense period of “discovery,” that is written questions, document . . . . Continue Reading »

A medical study has concluded that “in-home hospitalization” for the elderly can be both beneficial and cost effective. From the study itself: “Hospital-at-home care was feasible and efficacious in delivering hospital-level care to patients at home. In 2 of 3 sites studied, 69% of . . . . Continue Reading »

Bill Hurlbut is interviewed in today’s National Review Online. He discusses his Alterned Nuclear Transfer (ANT) proposal as well as the ethical troubles of Woo-Suk Hwang. Check it . . . . Continue Reading »

A correspondent sent me this editorial from the science journal Nature of a few months ago, decrying the ongoing effort by politicized scientists to redefine the embryo that is created through somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning. The mainstream media should listen to Nature and quit permitting . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been of the opinion that questions raised about Woo-Suk Hwang’s human cloning success were probably overblown. But now I am not so sure. This story from the Korea Herald reports that calls to independently retest the embryonic stem cells purportedly derived by Hwang from creating cloned . . . . Continue Reading »

Media bias has many faces. Sometimes it is overt, such as presenting editorial comment masked as factual reportage. Or, it can be very subtle, for example, by a reporter intentionally calling on a widely disliked or unhinged personality to comment on the side of a public controversy with which the . . . . Continue Reading »

China has admitted for the first time that it sells organs harvested from executed prisoners. Now, it intends to regulate the market. (A liver goes for about $40,000.) Once again, human life is being commodified. “We want to push for regulations on organ transplants to standardise the . . . . Continue Reading »

This is inexcusable. The Senate is poised to pass a bill (S 1317) that would bring the wonders of umbilical cord blood stem cells to sick and disabled people throughout the country by addressing the current problem of lack of supply. The bill passed the House by 431-1! Yet, anonymous Democrats in . . . . Continue Reading »

More than a year ago, the construction of a new research laboratory at Oxford University was halted when threats of violence scared off the construction company building the facility. (This is an example of tertiary targeting.) That led to a 16 month delay in building the facility, and a concomitant . . . . Continue Reading »

This wonderful column by Alicia Colon of the New York Sun is a wonderful tribute to my friend Nat Hentoff. He was honored in October by the Human Life Foundation, and I was humbled to be asked to introduce him. A few of my remarks are mentioned in this piece, but the focus should be on Nat.Here is . . . . Continue Reading »