Wesley J. Smith

I have been warning you all until I am blue in the face that the goal of the medical intelligentsia is explicit and invidious health care rationing under Obamacare—just as NICE does in the UK for the NHS.  And now, the NEJM has an article pushing the “Quality Adjusted Life . . . . Continue Reading »

I am a gadfly against what I consider to be global warming hysteria. But this post is different. I am trying to be helpful to the people with whom I disagree. I am not kidding. So please read this post in the spirit in which I have written it.Too Much Protection and Political Cover: That is one of . . . . Continue Reading »

A few weeks back, I mentioned a study published by the Hastings Center that hospices in Oregon are not participating in assisted suicide.  The CBC asked me to expound more fully on that issue, and the piece is out today.I discuss the abuses in Oregon—which we have dealt with many times . . . . Continue Reading »

Good grief.  It goes from bad, to worse, to I don’t know what to call it.  In the UK, unavailability of maternity beds has women giving birth in waiting rooms. From the story:Women are being forced to give birth in a hospital waiting room because there are not enough beds in . . . . Continue Reading »

This ad, from a very popular W. VA Governor running for the U.S. Senate—who is unexpectedly losing, according to the polls—illustrates where I think the American people are.  Against Obamacare and against global warming hysteria:P.S. Only a Democrat could get away with using the . . . . Continue Reading »

I am receiving media requests to comment on the embryonic stem cell human trial.  I already have here at SHS.  But I did again today over at The Corner. I point out how the media often fails to report more impressive human studies with adult stem cells.  From “Media Misses the . . . . Continue Reading »

This election will almost surely materially lessen the power of global warming hysteria to move policy in the U.S. Congress.   That doesn’t mean the hyperventilating will end.  In fact, in the face of the coming change in the political atmosphere, environmentalist Bill McKibben . . . . Continue Reading »

What a can of worms unregulated IVF has become.  Latest example: A couple using IVF and a surrogate have ordered the hired gestater to abort because the fetus/unborn baby had Down syndrome. From the story on BioNews:A couple from British Columbia, Canada, have been embroiled in a complex . . . . Continue Reading »

Adult stem cells have advanced so much further than this ESC experiment—restoring feeling to people with long time spinal cord injuries—with almost no media coverage.  (Apparently, the advance was achieved with the wrong kind of stem cells.)  But it is worth noting that a human . . . . Continue Reading »

Back in 1955, Michael Caine the actor says, he asked a doctor to kill his dying father.  That may or may not have happened.  And somehow, this 55 year-old event is supposed to promote voluntary euthanasia?  From the story:R Michael Caine has revealed how he asked a doctor to help his . . . . Continue Reading »