Wesley J. Smith

The US has given a long overdue apology: Apparently we funded scientists who intentionally infected people from Guatemala with sexually transmitted disease so they could study the disease and its potential treatments.  From the story:From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors . . . . Continue Reading »

Imagine being so destitute that you are willing to rent your womb for gestation—and then give up the child that you have nurtured to birth.  Imagine being so well off, you pay another woman to do your gestating—perhaps because you can’t carry a child, but also perhaps because . . . . Continue Reading »

The tyrannical impulses of global warming hysteria are clear and undeniable—whether it is NYT columnist Tom Friedman’s boy crush on the totalitarian Chinese Government’s ability to go green without impediment, some pushing for radical depopulation, and the expressed desire to . . . . Continue Reading »

If we are to have more affordable health care—single payer won’t do it, in my view—we need robust, interstate competition by health insurance companies, which would lead to greater innovation in policies and affordable options, such as catastrophic coverage with high . . . . Continue Reading »

Michael Kinsley thinks Baby Boomers are a failed generation. I agree.  We have been the most self satisfied and smug generation in this nation’s history—with the least about which to be smug and self satisfied, unless self absorption is warrants such attitudes. But...We should not, . . . . Continue Reading »

Two women carried out a joint suicide pact in the UK, using dangerous chemicals.  From the story:The pair, believed to be in their 20s, were found in a flat in Putney, south west London. The windows had been taped up and police believe toxic vapours were released which they inhaled. Detectives . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at The Corner , Daniel Foster wonders whether a tremendous recent breakthrough in creating pluripotent stem cells from normal body cells, could end the culture war battle over biotechnology. Alas, not a chance. As I pointed out in a longer analysis of this story over at Secondhand Smoke : Even . . . . Continue Reading »

Never underestimate the creativity and excellence of our scientists. New research seems to have overcome the difficulties of IPSCs, allowing pluripotent stem cells to be created from normal body cells without using genes or viruses. From the story in the Washington Post:In 2006, researchers . . . . Continue Reading »

Steve Drake over at NDY has an angry post up, embedding the YouTube clip above of Mike Huckabee criticizing the Obamacare requirement that insurance companies cover pre-existing conditions. Drake is unhappy because Huckabee analogized that provision to allowing a homeowner to buy property insurance . . . . Continue Reading »

These adult stem cell successes are getting pretty oh, hum—unless you are the lucky patients benefiting from breakthroughs.  In our most recent episode, a woman’s leg was saved using her bone marrow stem cells. From the story:During her operation, at the private Spire Alexandra . . . . Continue Reading »