Wesley J. Smith

As a Martin Luther King liberal—for which I am now deemed conservative (which tells you what has happened to modern liberalism)—I am always astounded when bioethics radicals claim the mantle of equality and compassion in their work.  Their beliefs promote just the . . . . Continue Reading »

I greatly admire Christopher Hitchens as a writer of superior talent and vigor, even as I shake my head in wonder at his anti-Mother Theresa obsession. I have not met Hitchens—although I have been entertained by stories told about him by mutual acquaintances. And while I have read many of his . . . . Continue Reading »

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“The scientists” used to say that embryonic stem cell research provided the primary, perhaps “only” hope for treatments of degenerative conditions like Parkinson’s and spinal cord injury.  This hype, willfully shoveled by Big Biotech and spread by its willing . . . . Continue Reading »

Animal research is crucial to the quest to find treatments for the worst human illnesses.  Toward this end, UK scientists are genetically altering pigs so that they will be born with currently incurable human diseases so that they can be used in drug research looking for effective . . . . Continue Reading »

It is now a joke, really.  But now the warnings of increasingly dire soon-to-be calamities caused by global warming have reached the ultimate end—human extinction.  From the column by Andrew Bolt: WE humans are about to be wiped out in a few decades. The grandchildren of many of us . . . . Continue Reading »

This undoubtedly isn’t true, nor do I really want it to be because it would involve assault. But still, the premise has definite appeal. From the “story:”Johnstown, PA (GlossyNews) – Local and state police scoured the hills outside rural Johnstown, Pennsylvania, after reports . . . . Continue Reading »

“The scientists” are on the warpath because global warming hysteria has been questioned and due to the substantial loss of credibility in global warming science itself  in recent months.  (The two things are not synonyms.)  But that is no excuse to further undermine the . . . . Continue Reading »

I just came across a blog called Civil Religion in the St. Louis Post Dispatch that eloquently applied the “duties” side of human exceptionalism with regard to the BP catastrophe. From “BP Oil Disaster & Human Responsibility: We Did This,”  by Sharon Autenrieth:I . . . . Continue Reading »

Good for Secretary State Hillary Clinton for focusing on the problems in the USA with sex trafficking.  From the story:There are thousands of modern-day “slaves” in America - girls and boys forced into the sex trade, and men and women held in debt bondage, Secretary of State Clinton . . . . Continue Reading »