Wesley J. Smith

I have warned and warned that legalizing assisted suicide leads directly to permitting active euthanasia, as I once put it, like the left leg follows the right, while walking.  And now, in Switzerland, a court has taken the poisonous leap.  From the story:A regional criminal court in . . . . Continue Reading »

Good grief.  Everybody wants a piece of global warming hysteria.  According to a big brain at Cancun, global warming goes hand-in-hand with obesity because—get this—we exercise less due to methods of modern transportation.  From the story:The world needs to go on a . . . . Continue Reading »

Four years ago, the story of  “Ashley’s Treatment” broke into the news, roiling the bioethical waters.  For those who may not recall, Ashley was a profoundly disabled 6-year-old girl whose parents and doctors decided to subject her to medically unnecessary . . . . Continue Reading »

Where is Freud when you need him: Sometimes weather is just weather.Britain and other parts of Europe are in a real cold snap.  It’s unusual weather, so it must be global warming, right?  Uh, that would be no, at least according to the science.  From the story: Is it the . . . . Continue Reading »

Bobby Kennedy Jr. has a . . . . Continue Reading »

I’ve been meaning to post about this case, but NYT Leftist columnist, Gail Collins, wrote about it first in her column today—so let’s bounce off her perspective. Collins is angry that a Medicaid patient needing an organ transplant was rationed out of the surgery because of . . . . Continue Reading »

I never bought the nonsense against Bush that he was anti science and skewed facts to fit his belief system.  That cetainly wasn’t true in the embryonic stem cell issue, which was a fight over proper ethics, not science. In fact, Bush’s faith that scientists could find ethical . . . . Continue Reading »

Belgium’s euthanasia law permits people to be killed by doctors because they are disabled.  In such a discriminatory setting, is it any wonder that a Belgian court has now approved the odious notion of a wrongful life.  From the story (may have to hit translation button):The Court of . . . . Continue Reading »

Many of us already suspect that many non science—and some scientist—boosters of GWH are ideological quasi religious fundamentalists.  The religion’s dogma seeks to punish the rich West for the sins of our forebears by redistributing wealth and stopping our economies in their . . . . Continue Reading »

This is the Dutch in a nutshell: If it is “transparent,” then it is okay. That opens the door to a lot of wickedness. Take infanticide.  Dutch doctors kill babies born with terminal and disabling conditions.  But rather than being ashamed, some are apparently proud because it . . . . Continue Reading »