Wesley J. Smith

Front page story in today’s SF Chronicle: “UCSF Taking Closer Look at ‘Calorie Restrictors.” From the story (no link until Saturday):Trent Arensault has eaten the same breakfast, lunch and dinner for the past four or five years: a fruit smoothie in the morning, a spinach . . . . Continue Reading »

When I heard the news that she had died, I realized I hadn’t thought about the singer Phoebe Snow for many years.  It turns out that was because she gave up stardom to care for her disabled child.  From her obituary:At the peak of her fame, in December 1975, she gave birth to a . . . . Continue Reading »

Academia grows increasingly loony—and the cause is rejecting human exceptionalism.  Our latest example comes from the new field of “animal ethics,” where some academics want us to stop insulting our dogs and cats by calling them “pets.”  From the story: Animal . . . . Continue Reading »

Academic Freedom.  Don’t you love it?  I do. But I have noticed in my work that these days, AF tends to be a one way street—protecting those with “approved” views, but leaving heterodox thinkers twisting in the wind of denied tenure, teaching  . . . . Continue Reading »

Whatever one thinks of assisted suicide—and my position is abundantly clear to anyone following this blog for more than a day or two—when it is undertaken, the death certificate should so state.  But the Washington law legalizing assisted suicide legally requires doctors to falsify . . . . Continue Reading »

The Canadian Supreme Court already ruled that there is no constitutional right to assisted suicide.  But, the one thing you can say about assisted suicide activists—they never take no for an answer, they never quit.  And now, a new lawsuit is planned.  From the story:Nearly two . . . . Continue Reading »

The crackpot, anti human ideas keep on coming.  The latest proposal comes from an Australian Academic named Dr. John Hadley, who wants to give property rights to animals and provide a court for them—really, a forum for radical environmentalists to legally enforce their own ideological . . . . Continue Reading »

In the wake of my post yesterday about the Obama Administration’s former “Green Czar”, Van Jones, signing up to push “nature rights,” I thought it is worth looking at the radical views expressed by other continuing administration members on issues relevant to SHS.- The . . . . Continue Reading »

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60 Minutes did a wonderful 30 minutes on the monks of Mt. Athos for Easter.  It was respectful, beautifully filmed, and captures the spiritual power of Orthodoxy.  Highly recommended. The entire show can be seen by hitting this link. . . . . Continue Reading »