Wesley J. Smith

I reported a bit ago about the case of Francis Inglis, the mother, who while out on bail for trying to kill her seriously disabled son Tom, went to his hospital room and murdered him.  In the UK, as here, such cases often generate “mercy” from the courts. But I predicted she would . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s funny: The more some Obamacare supporters deny that it would lead to health care rationing, the more it is advocated among the bioethics set and in the Medical Intelligentsia. Now, there is an explicit call to deny very early premature babies life-sustaining treatment because of the . . . . Continue Reading »

An unknown Republican—who explicitly ran against Obamacare—has won in Massachusetts! This is a hard blow for Obamacare, and an opportunity. The people want reform. I do. But they don’t want Hillarycare, squared. They don’t want centralized control with its prospects for . . . . Continue Reading »

I was interviewed a few weeks ago by NRO’s John Miller about my forthcoming book, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement . We discuss the difference between animal rights and animal welfare, human exceptionalism, the ongoing devaluation of human life, . . . . Continue Reading »

There is a futile care case in court in Canada involving an infant named Isiah, whose parents want to continue life support, versus the hosptial that seeks to unilaterally remove treatment. From the story:When Isaiah was born in Oct. 2009, he suffered severe oxygen deprivation. Doctors say . . . . Continue Reading »

I was interviewed a few weeks ago by NRO’s John Miller about my forthcoming book, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy.  We discuss the difference between animal rights and animal welfare, human exceptionalism, the ongoing devaluation of human life, and about my friendship with novelist Dean . . . . Continue Reading »

The UK’s NICE reliably illustrates the peril we will face of Obamacare’s form of centralized control is allowed to take hold. From the story:The Government’s drugs rationing body, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), has provisionally said that it does . . . . Continue Reading »

Martin Luther King was one of the three primary inspirations in my formative years (the other two being Ralph Nader and JKF). He was all about expanding inclusion in the human community, and alas, we now see many in bioethics and in other disciplines seeking actively to shrink it by rejecting human . . . . Continue Reading »

The tremendously talented cartoonist—and animal rights zealot— Dan Piraro, stumbled into truth in this cartoon. Meat provides good and nutritious food for people at a very reasonable price. That is a tremendous benefit for society that animal rights believers will never talk people out . . . . Continue Reading »

Omigosh! The panic about the supposed melting of the Himalayan glaciers that the “peer reviewed” scientists at the IOCC—all bow—claimed was imminent by 2035, not only isn’t, but was based on almost nothing at all.   From the story:A WARNING that climate change . . . . Continue Reading »