Wesley J. Smith

Only bureaucrats could think like this: Some NHS trusts are being charged with making patients wait longer for treatments than necessary to see if patients die to save money and lower expectations. From the Telegraph story:NHS managers are making patients wait longer than necessary for operations, . . . . Continue Reading »

So predictable: A journal editor publishes a peer reviewed article going against the “consensus” on global warming.  “The scientists” and media go ballistic. “Pressure”—to use a mild term—is brought to bear.  The sinning editor is . . . . Continue Reading »

Awful. Awful. Awful.  Bangladesh has busted a kidney trafficking gang.  From the Herald Sun story:Three people were arrested on Sunday in the remote Kalai area, 300 kilometres northwest of Dhaka, after reports surfaced that villagers were having their organs removed illegally. “We . . . . Continue Reading »

‘This is the 5000th entry published on Secondhand Smoke.I started this blog at the suggestion of a friend, who opined correctly that my then Website was too static.  “If you want people to come to your site,” he told me, “it has to change every day.”  And he . . . . Continue Reading »

A new study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry finds that—as pro lifers have long insisted—women who have abortions experience high rates of psychological problems.  From the Telegraph story:Women who have abortions are at risk of severe mental health problems, new . . . . Continue Reading »

LA Times’ business columnist, David Lazarus (who I knew slightly when he worked at the SF Chronicle), writes about a man who just died of cancer after a private insurance company refused to pay for an experimental treatment that could have extended his life. (Note, the company paid for . . . . Continue Reading »

Is anyone surprised? According to the British Medical Association Journal 10%—a likely under count—of suicides involve people with physical illnesses.  The Telegraph has this excerpt:At least 10 per cent of suicides that take place in England involve people with either a chronic or . . . . Continue Reading »

Wayne Pacelle is the head of the Humane Society of the United States.  He is very slick, sophisticated, and runs HSUS as if it is only about animal welfare.  I don’t believe it for a second.  HSUS works diligently to make meat raising more expensive and morally marginalized, . . . . Continue Reading »

Good grief.  I was hoping the Feds would come to their senses and drop this case, but as I learned while actively practicing law, once bureaucratic prosecutors go into action, they never let up.  Common sense has nothing to do with it.Jeremy Hill shot and killed a 2-year-old male grizzly . . . . Continue Reading »

I regularly comment on issues of relevance to the futuristic social movement that goes by the name of transhumanism. I am not impressed, both sharply disagreeing with its fervent anti human exceptionalistic/eugenic mindset, and finding its yearning for corporeal immortality rather sad.  As I . . . . Continue Reading »