Wesley J. Smith

The clique that fashioned themselves “the scientists” who mattered about global warming worked hard to keep their in crowd status. But now, that the IPCC’s credibility has gone Humpty Dumpty, and Climategate having revealed the lengths which some scientists took to control the . . . . Continue Reading »

Politicized science has corrupted the field and undermined the public’s confidence.  To counter this trend, notable stem cell scientists have signed an “open letter” calling for greater integrity in the peer review process. From the letter:Stem cell biology is highly topical . . . . Continue Reading »

The argument over embryonic stem cell research—and it’s first cousin and real agenda, human cloning research—has always been an ethics debate, not a science debate. But that doesn’t mean that scientific efforts to find ethical “alternatives’ to ESCR should not be . . . . Continue Reading »

Exactly!Ha! (Yes, yes, Science Literalists, I know that feelings don’t really come from the . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, the animal rightists are not going to like this. Seizing on the claim that meat eating causes global warming, rightists have pushed vegetarianism as an environmental fix. Now, a study has concluded, that eating meat might actually be better for the environment—at least in the UK. From the . . . . Continue Reading »

University towns tend to be the worst when it comes to vapidity and useless symbolic gestures promoting Leftist hyper control. In that tradition, Cambridge, MA—home of Harvard (of course)—has decided to take the point on fighting global warming!  And  they are serious about it, . . . . Continue Reading »

Honestly calling euthanasia, “euthanasia,” reveals that most Americans oppose legalization.  From the story:A new Angus Reid poll find that 42 percent of American adults are in favor of making euthanasia legal in the United States, although 52 percent feel legalizing induced death . . . . Continue Reading »

I have said it until I am blue in the face and I will continue saying it: Once a society decides that killing is an acceptable answer to human suffering, that which is deemed “acceptable suffering” will continue to expand until just about any category of suicidal person will eventually . . . . Continue Reading »

In the current edition of my podcast What It Means to be Human, I discuss Martin Amis’s call for “suicide booths on every corner,” and note the tragic self loathing caused by a terror of losing his talent to old age that seems to have inspired his call for a radical euthanasia . . . . Continue Reading »

Senator Jim Inhofe’s (R-OK) family builds Al Gore his fifth house in Washington . . . . Continue Reading »