Wesley J. Smith

This should be a huge story, but isn’t.  Belgian doctors have coupled euthanasia and organ harvesting—and write about it in respected medical journals. Moreover, the eligible for the euthanasia harvest are people with disabilities—such as MS—and even the mentally . . . . Continue Reading »

In my first article against euthanasia/assisted suicide—published in Newsweek in 1993—that legalization would inevitably lead to organ harvesting “as a plum to society.” As I have reported here and elsewhere, the harvest is now being reaped in Belgium—and doctors there . . . . Continue Reading »

Are they out of their minds?I have written in support of the non heart beating cadaver donor method for procuring organs—sometimes called heart death to differentiate it from the “brain death” (really, declared dead by neurological criteria). This approach involves declaring death . . . . Continue Reading »

PETA is a subversive group, almost (?) a cult, that is so obsessed about animals there are almost no levels to which it will not stoop in the cause of erasing the moral distinction between us and animals.  Remember the vile “Holocaust On Your Plate” campaign that literally compared . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote about this once before, but I think it is important enough to repeat.  In what I think is a material threat to the science sector, scientists are on trial in Italy because they failed to accurately predict a deadly earthquake.  From the Daily Telegraph story:The trial - due to . . . . Continue Reading »

We often hear from doctor-prescribed death advocates that assisted suicide legalization improves palliative care.  It’s not true.  Increased attention to the issue, e.g. hospice and public and professional education programs do.  Indeed, about a decade ago, Rhode Island outlawed . . . . Continue Reading »

Atlas of the World wildly misstates the territory of Greenland that is now supposedly ice free.  Scientists have cried foul. From the ScienceInsider story:So much for claims that climate scientists deliberately misrepresent their data: glaciologists are broadly and loudly panning the latest . . . . Continue Reading »

If they weren’t trying to destroy the economy of the world, keep destitute countries mired in poverty, undermine national sovereignty, and misusing science as a club to promote favored political policies, I might have some sympathy for all of the failed hysteria.  You know what I mean, . . . . Continue Reading »

The answer to the question posed by the Headline: They all threaten to empower, in the words of President Dwight Eisenhower, a “scientific-technological elite.”  Here’s the quote, via The Volokh Conspiracy blog:The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by . . . . Continue Reading »

I am still steamed at Pat Robertson’s blessing of abandoning a spouse with Alzheimer’s and moving on with life, so long as custodial care is provided, lamely excused by his claiming that Alzheimer’s is a “walking death,” and that such patients, “are gone, . . . . Continue Reading »