Wesley J. Smith

Awhile back, I posted on a blog article written by Kyle Munkittrick for the Discovery magazine Website that informed us when the transhuman future had arrived.  It was an important piece because it clearly and succinctly illustrated the subversive values that undergird the movement.  . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare was the most dishonestly packaged argued law I have witnessed in my about 45 years of paying attention to public affairs.  And now, we learn that the mendacity continues as a joint Congressional committee set rules to intentionally (it would seem) underestimate the costs of Obamacare . . . . Continue Reading »

This blog isn’t about sexual mores.  But sex is relevant from time to time in issues dealing with bioethics, the coup de culture, and AIDS prevention.  For example, when two US Senators suggested that smokers and the obese people pay 50% higher premiums under Obamacare because they . . . . Continue Reading »

When animals endanger human health and welfare, sometimes we have to get lethal. That time sure seems to have come in India, where (as reported here previously) macaques have overpopulated Delhi for many years.  Bureaucrats have tried to avoid acting lethally, most recently bu using a . . . . Continue Reading »

My uncle died of Alzheimer’s.  I hate that I felt the need to give my bona fides, but in an age where emotional narratives usually rule over reason, it is sometimes necessary.The Huffington Post published a piece by religious lefty April L. Bogle, that basically says we should kill people . . . . Continue Reading »

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued proposed rules to improve and modernize the legal ethical criteria that govern federally funded human research.  From the press release:Revisions to the current regulations are now being considered because HHS believes these changes . . . . Continue Reading »

A tragic letter was published in the current British Medical Journal (no link).  It is from a Dutch doctor who has twice euthanized patients, but now prefers terminal sedation, in part, because of the stress killing causes her.  She ends her letter on a poignant note.  From the BMJ . . . . Continue Reading »

I posted earlier about how the Obamacarians have now paid off political allies by forcing every  private health insurance policy to pay for a broad array of women’s  “reproductive” services—for free.  This is how banks are broken and healthcare becomes . . . . Continue Reading »

For years, GHWs have tried to panic the world into accepting their rule over the world’s economies—together with a scheme to redistribute wealth to destitute countries as an incentive for them to stay destitute—by claiming that the Arctic ice was MELTING!  MELTING!  . . . . Continue Reading »

Stories about the benefits of animal research are so ubiquitous that it is easy to forget that a cadre of animal rights activists want to end all such experimentation.  Here’s one that is a little different from the usual.  Vampire bats may hold the key to future pain control.  . . . . Continue Reading »