Wesley J. Smith

Republicans believe that in close elections, recounters will keep counting, and counting, and counting—until the Democrat leads—after which, the counting stops.  I don’t want to get into that (comments about Bush v Gore will not be posted), but that alleged formula is . . . . Continue Reading »

Every year, the Center for Bioethics and Culture asks me to predict the next year’s events in bioethics.  Each year, I comply—and generally have a pretty good record of seeing the events that our way come. But last year, I scored close to perfect. That’s because I bought a . . . . Continue Reading »

I never understood the logic of Obamacare’s tax on durable medical equipment. If the point is to lower health care costs—supposedly one of the two primary raisons d’ etre for this awful law (the other being to expand coverage)—the last thing you do is tax medical equipment . . . . Continue Reading »

The headline seemed controversial, but I don’t think it is. Scientists have removed male germ cells from the testes of mice and transformed them into sperm, from whence they come in the normal functioning male body. From the Telegraph story:Researchers in Germany and Israel were able to . . . . Continue Reading »

Sigh.  Once again someone has written that human beings only think they have free will, when in “reality,” implacable physical forces create the illusion that we have the power to decide.  Under this view, every decision we make and act we perform is forced unseen upon us by . . . . Continue Reading »

Scientists have mutated a bird flu virus—which I call the Armageddon flu because it has a 50% lethality rate in humans and would be highly infectious through airborne transmission.  Reckless, to say the least—as we have discussed here. But the scientists also want to publish their . . . . Continue Reading »

As regular readers of Secondhand Smoke know, I am very concerned about the growing anti-humanism permeating enviromental advocacy.  It started, perhaps, with deep ecology—but is spreading now to the misanthropic ”rights of nature”—including I just found out, in . . . . Continue Reading »

Two abortionist doctors have been charged with murder for the deaths of babies killed during late term abortions under Maryland’s viable fetus law. From the CBS Baltimore story:Two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged . . . . Continue Reading »

I find it odd that learned medical commentators would think that octogenarians and nonagenarians would not be aware that their time is growing short.  Of course they do!  Should doctors discuss what elderly patients want in terms of end of life treatment and extensive procedures . . . . Continue Reading »

When a woman donates her eggs for one purpose—to help another woman have a child—is it right and ethical to instead use embryos made from her gametes for destructive research without her knowledge or consent? A survey of IVF clinics has discovered that this is precisely what is . . . . Continue Reading »