Wesley J. Smith

Eugenics is both profoundly wrong and extremely dangerous in that it divides human beings into better and worse categories, which leads to great evil; oppression, exploitation, and killing.We saw that with the first eugenics, invented by the English statistician Francis Galton, who posited a . . . . Continue Reading »

I didn’t bother to post about the Obamacarians giving more than 1000 waivers for their disastrous law.  I’ll wait until it hits 1500, which the way things are going, should be very soon.  But this is noteworthy: It has now given the State of Maine a waiver. From the story:The . . . . Continue Reading »

The government filed its appeal of Judge Vinson’s ruling declaring Obamacare unconstitutional today. The govt. is also supposed to ask for an expedited hearing. We’ll see if that happens.  In any event,  this probably means the stay will remain in effect allowing the law to . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a piece up at The Corner that I think is worth pondering.  Last Sunday, the NYT published an op/ed by a condemned prisoner named Christian Longo, who viciously murdered his entire family, claiming he was so filled with remorse over his crimes that he wanted to be executed and donate his . . . . Continue Reading »

The other day, I posted a critique here of a commentary published in the New York Times by a condemned prisoner from Oregon who says he wants to donate his organs after execution.  I realized that in his supposed “guilt,” he hadn’t bothered to mention the names of his killed . . . . Continue Reading »

They just keep on rolling.  Scientists have used cells from patients’ own bodies to build new urethras.  From the story:The boys were ages 10 to 14 at the time of the surgery. Three were accident victims, and the other two had suffered failures of traditional urethra grafts. The . . . . Continue Reading »

I hesitate to bring up this very interesting essay by the Canadian writer David Warren, because it could be perceived as religious.  That would not be wrong, necessarily—I don’t know Warren’s religious views, if any.  But I see him as primarily focusing on cultural and . . . . Continue Reading »

Rationing—which is a direct and unavoidable consequence of single payer health care funding—pits patient groups against each other, each seeking to exclude others from part of the pie so they can get more.  It is a disturbing spectacle.  And media often take sides.A good . . . . Continue Reading »

We often hear the accusation that scientist and others, who don’t buy into the warming meme, are either on the take from big oil or have some other venal reason for standing against “the scientific consensus.”  But a recent opinion piece in the Washington Examiner shows that . . . . Continue Reading »

We have discussed here the drive within bioethics and transplant medicine to kill and harvest organs from people in a persistently unconscious condition.  We have discusses how euthanasia and organ donation are now coupled in Belgium.  And we have discussed how Jack Kevorkian, before . . . . Continue Reading »