Wesley J. Smith

Yikes.  The former cancer head of the WHO has warned that soon, the best cancer treatments will be restricted to the rich. From the Telegraph story: The most effective cancer treatments could become the “preserve of the rich” with the cost to the NHS rising towards £1 million . . . . Continue Reading »

Bullfighting is a relic from the Roman arena, in which people get caught up in a blood lust by the torture and killing of bulls, mixed with the fear/anticipation that the matador could be gored.  And now, Catalonia has ended it legally.  From the Telegraph story:Audiences have been . . . . Continue Reading »

Some GWHs like to try to impose their policy views by stifling the debate about man made global warming.  “It’s the consensus!” they thunder—deaf to the irony that “science” isn’t determined by consensus.  “The skeptical scientists are on the . . . . Continue Reading »

Most of the grunge work of government is done by faceless bureaucrats, who write libraries full of societal enervating rules implementing what are essentially regulation-enabling statutes—often hundreds or even thousands of pages long.  Thus, Obamacare’s 2000 or so pages of skeletal . . . . Continue Reading »

It is remarkable how often judges shrug at the killing of sick and disabled people. In the UK, a man plead guilty to manslaughter of his terminally ill wife, and walked out of court a free man. From the London Evening Standard story:Stuart Mungall, 71, smothered former actress Joan, 69, at their . . . . Continue Reading »

It is oft said that a society is judged by how it treats its weakest members. (Humans only. Animals are not members of the moral community. Their proper care is an important ethical issue, but irrelevant to this post.)  And there are no weaker among us than those who experience profound . . . . Continue Reading »

A treaty to protect the ozone is requiring the removal of an effective asthma inhaler.  From the CNN Health story:The Food and Drug Administration is reminding doctors and patients that Primatene Mist, the only nonprescription asthma inhaler in the United States, can no longer be sold or . . . . Continue Reading »

I knew there was a catch. Peter Singer opined that broadening health care coverage is an important public good.  (I agree, but it is not a “right.”  Nor, is Obamacare the correct approach.  But those are not the subjects of this post.)Being a utilitarian who advocates . . . . Continue Reading »

Environmentalism ain’t what it used to be.  Rather than being beneficently about maintaining a clean environment and promoting conservation, the radical edge has been pushing increasingly toward the dark side—turning anti human exceptionalism and anti progress. And alas, these days . . . . Continue Reading »

Good grief.  Here we go again.The SF Chronicle has a front page story about the fourth human subject to receive an embryonic stem cell-derived injection of cells.  From the story:A Bay Area patient who recently suffered a serious spinal cord injury and is now paralyzed from the waist down . . . . Continue Reading »