Let's Use Pigs as Organ “Donors”

by Wesley J. Smith

Scientists are learning how to transplant organs from pigs into humans—and animal rights activists are outraged.  Continue Reading »

18 Aug 2017

“Speciesism” Opens the Door to Bigotry

by Wesley J. Smith

Those who throw out accusations of “speciesism” seek to subvert human exceptionalism. Their framework should be rejected as a prescription for tyranny every time it is proposed. Continue Reading »

3 Mar 2017

The Pig-Man Isn’t

by Wesley J. Smith

There has been much handwringing about the news that scientists injected human stem cells into pig embryos, creating a mostly-pig-but-a-little-bit-human chimera. Here are some other questions that must be debated about this emerging technology while it remains in the gestational stage: Continue Reading »

3 Feb 2017

Bioethics in 2017

by Wesley J. Smith

Here are five bioethical issues that have the potential to explode into controversy. Continue Reading »

6 Jan 2017

Animal Rights Would Ban Pets

by Wesley J. Smith

The ultimate goal of animal rights is not to improve our treatment of animals, but to end all animal domestication. Continue Reading »

30 Sep 2016

Animal Rights Would Ban Pets

by Wesley J. Smith

The ultimate goal of animal rights is not to improve our treatment of animals, but to end all animal domestication. Continue Reading »

30 Sep 2016

Away With the Animals

by John Murdock

Wayne Pacelle’s rather rudderless quest to make the world safe for animals seems to be taking us to a world without any livestock at all. Continue Reading »

9 Aug 2016

Scientific Subversion

by Wesley J. Smith

Human exceptionalism was once considered a self-evident truth. No longer. For years, advocates for radical animal-rights agendas have sought to undermine the view of man as a species set apart.This isn’t really news. But some may be surprised to hear that many who work within the life sciences . . . . Continue Reading »

15 Apr 2016

Mainstreaming “Animal Personhood”

by Wesley J. Smith

Complacency is cultural subversion’s best friend. You know what I mean: When a radical proposal is voiced, people chuckle and roll their eyes, believing that it can’t happen here, saying, “What will they think of next?” Thus, when the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued Sea . . . . Continue Reading »

5 Feb 2016

The Beastly Paradox

by Francesca Aran Murphy

Blaise Pascal spoke of the contradiction in every human heart. Man is an animal at once godlike and depraved. It is not that our dreams are great and our behavior base, but that our dreams are simultaneously wonderful and vile. Perhaps nowhere is this more obvious than in our treatment of other . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2015