Wesley J. Smith

The first, rush-rush investigation of Climategate has determined that the scientists at East Anglia did not distort the data or interfere with peer review, but did keep too many secrets. From the Guardian story:MPs today strongly criticised the University of East Anglia for not tackling a . . . . Continue Reading »

Yikes! Thousands of patients were put at risk by blunders in cancer screening or diagnoses in the UK, much of it caused by staff shortages. From the story:Blunders by GPs, hospital doctors and nurses jeopardised the health of thousands of patients when cancer was misdiagnosed or not spotted . . . . Continue Reading »

A pretty good debate was held today at Columbia University Law School between David Levin—head of New York chapter of Compassion and Choices—and yours truly.  As I recall it, it hit some hard point on both sides.  Check it out at this podcast link:That was this morning. This . . . . Continue Reading »

Amidst all the fury over the Bush stem cell funding restrictions, every once in a while stories would appear indicating that the field was really being stifled not by funding problems—I’ll say—ESCR received more than $2 billion in private/public funding during the Bush . . . . Continue Reading »

Humans are just too stupid to listen to the global warming hysterics.  So saith James Lovelock, author of the Gaia Theory, you know, the idea that the earth and all of its organic and non organic parts are really part of one, living, self-regulating, system. From the story:Humans are too stupid . . . . Continue Reading »

Anyone who knows up close what it is like to have a loved one die of Alzheimer’s  can’t help but sympathize with the pain of a husband watching his wife fade away from the dread brain disease. I’ve been there. My uncle died Alzheimer’s.But legalizing euthanasia for . . . . Continue Reading »

Even without passage of Obamacare, we have a growing shortage of primary care physicians.  This means that it will be increasingly difficult for us to find a new doctor when we want one—a real problem in Canada, for example.  Making matters worse, the federal government caps . . . . Continue Reading »

A few years ago, Secondhand Smokette and I were in Europe.  We interacted with people who, it would be fair to say, are part of the intelligentsia and political ruling classes. They hated President Bush, which did not surprise us.  But the cause of their loathing did:  It wasn’t . . . . Continue Reading »

This puzzles me: If a main point of Obamacare is to control costs—the real point is raw power, but never mind—then taxing medical devices that are so integral to the delivery of health care makes no sense.  Yet, Obamacare imposes an excise tax on medical device . . . . Continue Reading »

Let’s see: Nancy Pelosi has an 11% approval rating, and Harry Reid a whopping 9%.  It’s not a coincidence that they are the prime architects of Obamacare.  But the president isn’t faring so well, either. He got a small bump in all the media cheer leading, but his approval . . . . Continue Reading »