Wesley J. Smith

Something must be done.  Dolphins are killing porpoises in Monterey Bay!  From the San Francisco Chronicle story:The harbor porpoise that washed ashore last month at San Francisco’s Fort Funston was clearly a victim of foul play. It had two badly broken jawbones, fractured ribs on . . . . Continue Reading »

The headline is provocative, but I think it is accurate.  With the HPV vaccine in the news, I thought I would check to see what happened with AB 499, a bill that would allow children to receive STD preventative treatment—e.g. HPV vaccine—without parental knowledge or consent.  . . . . Continue Reading »

Pat Robertson approves of seeing “other people” and/or divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer’s because it is a “kind of death.”  From a 700 Club segment (first two minutes of clip) in which Robertson answers a question about a man started seeing other people after his . . . . Continue Reading »

Shame on the jury who, in effect, agreed that a now happy child born with disabilities would be better off dead via abortion.  From the Palm Beach Post story:During a roughly two-week-long trial that ended Wednesday, Mejia and Santana claimed they would have never have brought Bryan into the . . . . Continue Reading »

The pending nationalization of health care will come at a steep price beyond sclerotic bureaucratization, increased costs, and the stifling of innovation.  We will now begin to lose personal freedom in the name of cutting health care costs.Latest example: Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s mayor, is . . . . Continue Reading »

The idea of the “the consensus” was always an anti science meme.  The notion that the only “so-called” scientists who had substantial doubts about the global warming “crisis” were on the evil oil company payrolls, was always just a way to try to stifle . . . . Continue Reading »

Michell Bachmann’s reckless claim that the HPV vaccine can cause retardation is a growing news story.  (In many ways it is worse than when John Edwards said in 2004 that if people voted for John Kerry, people like Christopher Reeve would get out of their wheelchairs and walk from . . . . Continue Reading »

The LA Times has an interesting story about whether doctors should tell imminently dying patients that they are about to expire.  The question asked, is whether this is the right thing to do.  From “Should Doctors Tell Patients When Death is Imminent:”A study published online . . . . Continue Reading »

Governor Perry’s executive order requiring all girls (I think at age 12) to receive the HPV vaccine—with a parental opt out—has become a legitimate political issue in the Republican primary, and I think, nationally.  Representative Bachmann charged Perry with “crony . . . . Continue Reading »

The United States Declaration of Independence states that it is a “self evident truth” that we all have an “inalienable right” to “the pursuit of happiness,” the key word, being “pursuit.”  Our founding document doesn’t decide what that . . . . Continue Reading »