Wesley J. Smith

It’s called law enforcement, and it’s long overdue.I have long criticized recreational marijuana promoters for using people who need medical marijuana as the front for their highs.  This has led to a huge commercial industry raking in millions of dollars, which even California . . . . Continue Reading »

The march of cost containment continues, undoing decades of advice that we be screened for cancers in order to catch it earlier. First, it was a recommendation that women under 50 not be provided mammograms.  Now, it is a recommendation that insurance not cover men receiving the PSA blood test, . . . . Continue Reading »

Herman Cain got in some trouble with Politifact for making an over-the-top statement about Margaret Sanger and the early days of Planned Parenthood, causing the fact checking media site to give him its dreaded “Pants on Fire” denigration. From the Poltifact story: [Cain said,] ”When . . . . Continue Reading »

This must end.  “Experts” are advising bureaucrats to continue seizing control of the entire American health care system.  Now, the Feds are preparing to centrally dictate coverage terms for private policies across the nation. From the AP story:The federal government is taking . . . . Continue Reading »

Sick people have been used by recreational marijuana advocates. First, they hid behind medical marijuana movement, using images of suffering people to gain a toehold in their pursuit of the outright legalization of cannabis.  (California voters recently refused to go along.) Then, they . . . . Continue Reading »

The Washington Post headline is misleading: “Scientists Report Possibly Crucial Advance in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research.” In actuality, this is a potential advance in human cloning research.(Scientists have long known how to create ES cell lines from destroyed embryos.)The story, . . . . Continue Reading »

I wish single payer plans could work in the USA.  I really do. But alas, they don’t, and they can’t.Here’s an example of the mess we are in.  Doctors and recipients are suing California for cutting compensation to doctors, and the case has landed in the Supreme . . . . Continue Reading »

Seven Kosovars are being tried for the odious crime of organ trafficking.  The allegations vividly depict how the destitute are exploited at all levels of this odious form of oppression.  From the New York Times story:The suspects are accused of luring victims from Turkey and former . . . . Continue Reading »

Legalized assisted suicide costs us the presence of good people, who had they been given emotional support to help them not commit suicide in their time of health extremis, would be so glad to be alive.  I have written frequently of my last hospice patient, Bob, who had been suicidal for 2 1/2 . . . . Continue Reading »

Penn bioethicist Art Caplan and I have had some vocal disagreements over the years, but we tend to think very similarly about organ transplant issues.  Now Art and four other bioethicists have an opinion column in The Lancet calling for a boycott of Chinese scientists over its barbaric human . . . . Continue Reading »