Wesley J. Smith

In 1992, Jack Kevorkian proposed establishing a pilot program of euthanasia clinics, which, he argued in the Journal of Forensic Pathology, would be staffed by physician-killers, permitted legally to painlessly terminate patients who request it… . Continue Reading »

The February Issue Is Here!
01.25.2010
The Editors

How did we get here, to this curious and unexpected place? We could never have imagined, for instance, we’d live to see the day a book of the Bible is illustrated by an R-rated comic-strip cartoonist… . Continue Reading »

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I’ve been trying to not post about global warming today, but it has been hard.  Over the last several months, the entire facade of the “scientific consensus” has been exposed as more about politics than science. And in the wake of NASA’s claim that the last decade was . . . . Continue Reading »

I knew that global warming hysteria had badly infected Europe several years ago. Secondhand Smokette and I sojourned in France and countries Nordic. We met a friend who is a diplomat for a European country.  He really hated President Bush, surprisingly, not because of Iraq—he thought we . . . . Continue Reading »

Disgraceful: A UN scientist has admitted he included the nonsense about Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035—even though he knew it had not been scientifically verified—to put political pressure on regional government leaders. From the story:The scientist behind the bogus claim in a . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh dear, oh dear: The UN’s IPCC has been caught getting it hysterically wrong again.  First, it was the false claim that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035—which turned out to be one man’s conjecture—since withdrawn—published in New Scientist.  . . . . Continue Reading »

NASA has released a study claiming that 2000-2009 was the warmest decade since records began being kept in 1880.  This isn’t the same thing as saying it is the warmest decade ever, of course.  And I am skeptical. First, Jim Hansen is a panic monger, and I don’t believe anything . . . . Continue Reading »

Are Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid really this dumb?  Apparently, they are attempting to resuscitate the seemingly dead health care reform Gargantua by keeping its most onerous provisions and shoving it through the Senate in a process that would require only 51 votes. From the . . . . Continue Reading »

I guess this is one way to deter the suicide industry that has set up shop in Switzerland: Tax it!  From the story:Patients who travel to Switzerland to die in Zurich’s so-called suicide clinics could face a 50,000 Swiss franc ($53,000) ”death tax”. Right-wing Swiss . . . . Continue Reading »

The Canadian philosopher and bioethicist, Margaret Somerville, has a splendid column out in the Ottawa Citizen on the importance of human exceptionalism and the need to reject animal personhood.  Well worth the read.  Here’s the link . . . . . Continue Reading »