Wesley J. Smith

Wow.  Japanese scientists claim that they restored mobility to a paralyzed monkey—note the need for using animals in research—with human induced pluripotent stem cells. From the story:Japanese researchers said Wednesday they had used stem cells to restore partial mobility in a small . . . . Continue Reading »

This is hilarious.  For years we have been told by GWHs that President Bush was RISKING THE FUTURE OF THE PLANET! by rejecting Kyoto—the current global warming treaty that sets modest restrictions on carbon emissions.  (Most signatory nations have not met those goals, but these deals . . . . Continue Reading »

Stories like this are making the collective American pull our hair out.  Doctor compensation under Medicare is going to be cut 20% unless the reduction is delayed.  Of course, the pay cut must be prevented—both out of fairness to doctors and to keep them from refusing to take . . . . Continue Reading »

I was honored to have been interviewed by Eleanor Clift about the Schiavo case and hospice for her book, Two Weeks of Life.  We met at my hotel in Washington DC and spent more than an hour discussing hospice and its many benefits to dying patients and their families.  I talked about my . . . . Continue Reading »

Sarah Palin has a documentary running on cable television about life in Alaska—or more accurately, creating a myth of her.  All ambitious politicians try to weave such narratives.  No big deal.I admire Palin in many ways, but am not obsessed with her.  I have never watched the . . . . Continue Reading »

Wesley goes to the gym:Obamacare in . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote about this emerging issue with Obamacare before, but the number of Obamacare waivers have now doubled.  Why?  To prevent a lot of people from losing their insurance.  From the story:The Obama Administration has quietly granted even more waivers to one provision of the new . . . . Continue Reading »

The Health Administration Blog has named SHS one of the “Top 50” blogs about stem cell research, in the “Bioethics” section.  (The listings appear to be alphabetical in each section.) Whoever prepared the list sure did their homework.  There are a lot of good blogs . . . . Continue Reading »

We have previously discussed the injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who ruled that President Obama’s embryonic stem cell funding policy violated federal law.  That funding cutoff was stayed on appeal, the oral arguments of which were heard yesterday. From the . . . . Continue Reading »

It goes from the ridiculous to the sublime in Cancun.  Now, surgery is a major cause of global warming!  From the story:In the new study Professor Ole John Nielsen of Copenhagen found that two of the main anaesthetic gases used, sevoflurane and desflurane, are respectively 210 and 510 . . . . Continue Reading »