Wesley J. Smith

NYT columnist Ross Douthat voiced a strong thought I had yesterday—but decided not to get into so as to not muddy the waters—when reporting about a NYT Magazine story extolling a couple buying the services of four women—two for eggs and two “gestating carriers”—so . . . . Continue Reading »

If this works out, it could save tremendously on resources—and more importantly, help catch cancers very early and gauge the effectiveness of ongoing treatments. Like all modern medical advances, I’ll bet animal research was part of the . . . . Continue Reading »

We have discussed here how radical environmentalists and global warming hysterics have extolled China’s tyrannical one-child policy as a model for the West to follow.  In addition to being despotic, a side effect of formal population control—at least in China—has been explicit . . . . Continue Reading »

I read a piece in the Washington Post by Norm Ornstein last week, in which he thinks he cleverly hoisted conservatives on the death panel petard.  Arizona—as we have discussed—and now Indiana Medicaid, refused treatments (in the latter’s case because, the state claimed, it is . . . . Continue Reading »

The last two years have profoundly undermined popular support for GWH.  Climategate, contradictory—and always DIRE!—predictions by scientists, false prophesies, explicit anti humanism (which was what attracted me to this as an SHS issue), bad economies, etc., have taken the issue . . . . Continue Reading »

MSM like the NYT and culture mavens like Oprah are enamored of procreation stories that break boundaries.  The latest installment, in today’s Magazine, presents a very long article about a couple who paid for eggs and hired two surrogates to gestate two children at the same time so that . . . . Continue Reading »

The new regulation compensating doctors who discuss end of life care with Medicare patients during their yearly physicals, continues to make news.  I was interviewed for one such article by the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.  The reporter was very attentive and quoted me correctly, which is . . . . Continue Reading »

Another day, another NHS disaster looms.  This time, it is in maternity care.  From the story:Maternity services are close to breaking point and care for mothers is worsening, the UK’s leading midwife warns in a dramatic plea over the declining state of childbirth on the NHS. Labour . . . . Continue Reading »

An SHSer sends along this article in the Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin by the head of the school’s Stem Cell Advisory Board, William Sahlman, who is also a big time professor at the the Harvard Business School. He is reacting to a federal court’s ruling that President . . . . Continue Reading »

As I write this, it is 2011 already in some parts of the world.  To me, it feels like it should still be 1984.  Be that as it may, Peggy Noonan wrote a splendid column about New Year’s and the song Auld Lang Syne.  From “Days of Auld Lang What?”“Auld Lang . . . . Continue Reading »