Wesley J. Smith

This piece by opinion columnist Stuart Leavenworth appeared in the Sacramento Bee. (Registration may be required.) Increasingly, the media is beginning to report the truth about 71. It was a big con job that is going to cost the state billions of dollars. Once the Institute for Regenerative Medicine . . . . Continue Reading »

I was asked by the San Francisco Chronicle to write an extended piece that would be a look into the crystal ball about the controversies that can be expected to roil society over issues of science and biotech in coming years. This is it. Among the matters discussed are personhood theory, the . . . . Continue Reading »

I have subscribed to the New Scientist, which is a “pro science” magazine, by which I mean, in addition to purely science articles, it publishes polemical broadsides arguing on behalf of naked science unfettered by societal restraints. In the October 22 issue, Timothy Ferris, identified . . . . Continue Reading »

Dr. Philip Nitschke, is sometimes called the Australian Jack Kevorkian. He is obsessed with assisted suicide/euthanasia, and has long advocated that a suicide pill be available to anyone who wants it, including “troubled teens.” For years, financed in large part by the Hemlock Society, . . . . Continue Reading »

Here is a story of just one victim of “tertiary targeting,” by animal liberation terrorists. “First came the threatening phone calls to George Svokos’ home in Franklin Lakes last December. Then his mail was stolen. Fliers appeared on his car and those of neighbors, accusing . . . . Continue Reading »

I was just reading last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. There, in all its eugenic glory, is an advertisement with the headline, “Donor Egg Immediately Available.” The text tells us that the “fully-screened” egg donors come from women “in advanced degree . . . . Continue Reading »

A Canadian bill to legalize euthanasia/assisted suicide demonstrates vividly where the “right to die” crowd wants to take society. The bill, C-407, does not require that the person who wants to be killed be terminally ill. It doesn’t even require that the suicidal person be . . . . Continue Reading »

Last week, a senate committee held hearings on the terrorist war against Life Sciences Research (Huntingdon), by SHAC and other liberationists, which I have described in this blog and elsewhere. The New York Stock Exchange is the most recent apparent appeaser of SHAC, changing its mind at the last . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote a column against AB 651, which would legalize Oregon-style assisted suicide, in today’s Orange County Register. There is nothing particularly new in this piece. But repetition is the key to prevailing in today’s public policy debates. And, I think, it is a good, succinct view of . . . . Continue Reading »

Gee, it looks like the taxpayers of California won’t receive much of a return on their borrowed billions, to be given to Big Biotech and university research centers under Proposition 71, after all. This is in direct contradiction to the promises made by supporters of the initiative. Opponents . . . . Continue Reading »