Wesley J. Smith

This is Suicide Prevention Week, and tomorrow is Suicide Prevention Day.  Who knew? Have you seen any publicity about this important work?  I sure haven’t. That begs a question: Why has suicide prevention become almost invisible?  Part of the blame goes to the corrosive impact of . . . . Continue Reading »

When I was practicing law full time from the mid 1970s into the 1980s, there was tremendous on emphasis suicide prevention.  Hotlines proliferated, anti suicide billboards were ubiquitous, and a great deal of attention was paid to the issue throughout society.Then, the assisted suicide movement . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been fighting the international campaign to legalize and normalize doctor-prescribed/administered death since 1993, and this much I know: Once euthanasia is let in the door, ultimately, enough is never, ever enough.Par exemple: Euthanasia activists often assure that no doctor will be forced . . . . Continue Reading »

No wonder the president is smiling: The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed two Obamacare appeals, one from Virginia and one from Liberty University.  But neither reached the constitutional question, dismissing the cases for a purported lack of standing to bring the cases.  From . . . . Continue Reading »

“Science” is often really ideology these days, particularly in the attempt by some to convey onto animals characteristics that are distinctly human, in order to, in my view, destroy human exceptionalism.Here’s a small example.  LiveScience has an article up headlined . . . . Continue Reading »

Skeptics of global warming are often castigated as “anti science.”  But the true underminers of that powerful method of obtaining and applying information about the natural world are the politicized scientists and advocates who unilaterally proclaimed the “debate over” . . . . Continue Reading »

Anyone paying close attention to recent events must know that the assisted suicide movement’s ultimate destination is suicide as a general right. Now, in another step in the direction of death-on-demand, a notorious UK assisted suicide advocate is escorting an elderly woman to Switzerland to . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t think the current growth in people without health insurance is directly attributable to Obamacare, but primarily to the lousy economy.  Much of the law hasn’t taken effect yet, and the more than 1000 waivers from existing Obamacare mandates have prevented many from losing . . . . Continue Reading »

In the old days, men at the top of some cultures would father scores of children from his many wives and harem concubines.  I thought of the harem nursery when I read the story of one sperm donor fathering siring more than 150 children.  From the NYT story:Cynthia Daily and her partner . . . . Continue Reading »

PETA claims that Bill Clinton’s newly found veganism saves 200 animals a year from slaughter.  That’s a dumb number, since even a man with the former president’s appetite couldn’t eat 200 animals a year—unless they were all chickens or shrimp.  So PolitiFact . . . . Continue Reading »