Wesley J. Smith

The assisted suicide movement teaches people how to commit suicide by self starvation. To be clear, I am not talking about when people stop eating as a natural part of the natural dying process.  That isn’t suicide.  But rather, refusing food and water, not because one can’t . . . . Continue Reading »

Google’s business slogan was once, “Don’t be evil,” which the company dropped in 2009.  Perhaps they should have kept it.  Now, Google is paying a $500 million fine for knowingly allowing on-line pharmacies that illegally sell drugs without a prescription to . . . . Continue Reading »

The Netherlands used to be the heart of euthanasia darkness.  It is still dark, but the culture of death crown has passed to Belgium, which not only legalized doctor-injected killing, but has enthusiastically embraced euthanasia’s logical corollaries.  And now, we find that the . . . . Continue Reading »

This is funny.How often do we hear about studies claiming to demonstrate that liberals are smarter than conservatives, or conservatives live in a world dominated by fear: You know the drill. Well now a study has come out stating that those who believe that utilitarianism is the best approach to . . . . Continue Reading »

So, a Dutch priest has refused to conduct the funeral of a person who died by euthanasia.  His choice, right?  No.  An uproar has ensued. From the story:A priest in the parish of Liempde in North Brabant refused to conduct the funeral of a man who had chosen euthanasia, news agency . . . . Continue Reading »

Bioethicist Joel Marks comments on his loss of religious belief and how it led to his eschewing the very concept of “right” and “wrong.  It is an interesting read for me because it seems his “anti epiphany” flowed directly both from his rejection of God, but more . . . . Continue Reading »

Last week, Secondhand Smokette and I had a very nice vacation in Eastern Wyoming and Western South Dakota.  Quite wonderful.  Not as spectacular as our usual haunt in the Tetons, but far less crowded.  Here are a few photos I took.Total kitsch in Deadwood, SD, where Wild Bill Hickok . . . . Continue Reading »

We generally provide the best health care in the world in the USA.  Our primary failing is opening access to insurance for the working middle class whose employers don’t provide it, and to people with preexisting conditions that don’t qualify for Medicaid or Medicare (which, like . . . . Continue Reading »

Scientists have discovered the process of ALS, aka, Lou Gehrig’s disease or motor neurone disease.  All ALS has now been linked to a problem with a specific protein.  Now a new field of research can begin to find treatments to help the affected protein function properly.  From . . . . Continue Reading »

China’s infamous one child policy has resulted in female infanticide, forced abortion, sex selection abortion, forced sterilization, and eugenics—resulting in a terrible and potentially destabilizing imbalance between males and females.  But that tyranny is apparently A-OK with our . . . . Continue Reading »