Wesley J. Smith

My pal Nat Hentoff, one of the country’s most respected civil libertarians, weighs in against Donald Berwick’s desire to eliminate most doctor/patient face-to-face meetings, Paul Krugman’s assertion that we need “death panels” to control costs, and Obamacare generally, . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a followup to my recent post about Peter Singer denying equal moral status to children until after two years of age.Defenders of Peter Singer like to say that we critics are just too dull to really understand what the great man is saying.  And hence, we distort his thinking on issues . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter Singer claimed at a Princeton symposium about abortion that public policy might not be able to reflect it, but in his view, children don’t achieve full moral status until after two years, which is how long it takes to develop into full personhood.  From my transcription of Panel II . . . . Continue Reading »

Oops. Someone went off his talking points! An IPCC official named Ottmar Edenhofer admitted to a German publication that the intent of Cancun—Copenhagen’s next step—is really about redistributing wealth. From the interview:Basically it’s a big mistake to discuss climate . . . . Continue Reading »

I was alerted by Nat Hentoff about an assertion made by Peter Singer—as reported in the Catholic Eye—at a  Princeton conference around the abortion question, in which he claims that human beings don’t possess full moral status until after the age of two. I checked it out for . . . . Continue Reading »

When proponents of Proposition 71 shouted CURES! CURES! CURES in 2004, perhaps the people of California could be forgiven for believing them—what with all the hype going on at the time—and borrowing $3 billion to pay for research grants (which will be at least $6 billion when interest is . . . . Continue Reading »

I have always believed that Octomom’s (Nadya Suleman) doctor didn’t do anything that other IVF doctors don’t sometimes do, that is implant six embryos.  It appears, however, that he got carried away, in one attempt implanting 12.Still, I think that his biggest crime, for which . . . . Continue Reading »

I mentioned the problems with Obamacare’s creation of a Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board in a previous post.  But I thought it so important, I asked the Weekly Standard if I could opine at greater length, and they agreed.Obamacare gave IPAB’s unelected . . . . Continue Reading »

This is so awful. South Africa has a population of about 50 million.  Nearly 6 million of them have HIV.  And a new study expects another 5 million contract it in the next two decades.  From the story:South Africa, already home to 5.7 million H.I.V.-positive people, more than any . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s like I have been saying: Only this time, the warning against GWH is in Science.  But the authors still miss the bigger point.  From “Apocalypse Soon? Dire Messages Reduce Belief in Global Warming by Contradicting Just World Beliefs:”Though scientific evidence for the . . . . Continue Reading »