Wesley J. Smith

It is beyond reckless to permit ideology to endanger your baby’s health.  But that is what seems to have happened in France, where vegan parents have been charged with the neglect in the death by malnourishment of their baby. From the story:Sergine and Joel Le Moaligou, whose vegan diet . . . . Continue Reading »

Bueno! The Idaho Legislature has overwhelmingly passed legislation to explicitly outlaw assisted suicide in the state.  From the story:The Idaho House has concurred with the Senate and voted to ban assisted suicide in Idaho. The measure, Senate Bill 1070, passed the House 61-8.  It now . . . . Continue Reading »

The Sacramento Bee is like all major California newspaper editorial boards—liberal and in the tank for Big Biotech.  (I still don’t understand this love for BB, and the concomitant loathing of Big Pharma amongst the liberal chattering class.  Both have the same agendas.)But . . . . Continue Reading »

I am only partially tongue in cheek when I assert that radical environmentalists want to return us to hunter/gatherer societies, or rather, just gatherers.  No source of energy is pure enough. Nukes? Not for decades and certainly not now! Oil? Evil!  Coal? Global warming!  END THE . . . . Continue Reading »

I didn’t give Earth Hour much thought.  (For those who may not know, it is a worldwide campaign to turn off the lights and electric appliances for an hour.)  I thought of it in the same way as I think of those ubiquitous ribbon in the lapel campaigns—essentially about feeling . . . . Continue Reading »

I was sipping a glass of red wine, just now—reading the NYT Sunday Magazine. I almost choked.  After fighting for two weeks with Arianna Huffington over the role of news aggregation sites—and I sure have no dog in that fight!—editor Bill Keller this week took computer chip in . . . . Continue Reading »

Another big breakthrough on the IPSC front: Skin cells from a patient with Parkinson’s—a variety caused by a genetic condition—have been turned into neural cells, and then studied as the Parkinson’s destroys the tissue.  From the story:There are no cures because research . . . . Continue Reading »

What difference does it make if Francis Collins is a Christian and Christopher Hitchens is an atheist? Hitchens has cancer and Collins is working on individualized cancer treatments based on genetics. But that is the hook for this Telegraph story:The author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons . . . . Continue Reading »

Animal rights ideology states that there should be no domesticated animals of any kind and no human utilitarian uses of animals of any sort.  This would cause great human harm, which animal rights/liberation theorists try to downplay so as to not lose any chance of suading the public to their . . . . Continue Reading »

I posted here the other day about the Abby Dorn case, in which an ex husband was trying to prevent visitation between his ex wife and their children, based it seemed to me from the story on her disability and his loathing of her mother.  Not knowing all the facts, I didn’t opine—but . . . . Continue Reading »