Wesley J. Smith

Advanced Cell Technology is reporting that a very preliminary review of its ESCR-derived eye treatment shows safety and potential efficacy.  From The Lancet:Schwartz and colleagues have realised the potential to use hESCs therapeutically in human beings. Their report is preliminary, in only two . . . . Continue Reading »

I am going to keep pounding this drum. The Federal Drug Administration is going to be asked to approve a prescription drug derived from real marijuana.  But there is a problem.  From the AP story:A British company, GW Pharma, is in advanced clinical trials for the world’s first . . . . Continue Reading »

I have already opined about the Obama Administration’s ordering all health insurance companies to cover free birth control and other “reproductive” services—some of which are not even medical in nature.  From “Obamacare: Lard on the Goodies, Destroy the . . . . Continue Reading »

I like Anne Conlon, managing editor of the Human Life Review.  I have known her for, gosh, more than 15 years now, having often been published in the journal, and was honored when the Human Life Foundation named me—along with my mentor in this work, Rita . . . . Continue Reading »

The media is justly celebrating the release from the hospital of a baby born prematurely at 24 weeks, named Melinda Star Guido.  From the CBS story:At birth, Melinda Star Guido weighed less than a can of soda - only 9 1/2 ounces. After spending close to the first five months of her life at the . . . . Continue Reading »

It is hard to find a more pro choice country than Canada, particularly among the country’s medical establishment.  But apparently sex selection abortions are becoming a “problem,” and so the Canada Medical Association Journal wants to outlaw telling a mother the sex of her . . . . Continue Reading »

About a week ago, I was contacted privately about a situation that has since hit cyberspace very hard. A developmentally disabled girl, I was told, was being denied an organ transplant solely because of her disability.  I made some private suggestions about what the parents might want to . . . . Continue Reading »

As I am asked to do each year by the Center for Bioethics and Culture, I looked into the future to see what will happen in matters bioethical. This isn’t mystical prophesy. Rather, I look at the facts as I see them now, and project out to where I think they will lead. Thus, my . . . . Continue Reading »

Very strange happenings in my pal Dean Koontz’ new novel, 77 Shadow Street—which opened at number 1 on the NYT Bestseller List. Terrible things happen every 38 years to residents of the old Victorian mansion—now an upscale cooperative called The Pendleton. And now, . . . . Continue Reading »

On to the mentally ill!  That is the message of a new article in the Dutch language tijdschrift voor psychiatrie 53 (2011) 8 (Journal of Psychiatry).  I’ll skip the nonsense about great care being shown, and “hopeless” conditions—which the article doesn’t say . . . . Continue Reading »