Wesley J. Smith

The public is growing increasingly skeptical about the supposed crisis we face from human-caused global warming.  From the story:The drop off in public support for the idea that global warming is a fact mostly caused by human activity looks most pronounced in Canada. In November, 63% of . . . . Continue Reading »

What a hoot!Part 2:And the finale:Those bad winters seem like the current one. Oh, oh!Dr. Stephen Schneider, who appears at the end of the video to worry that the cure for the ice age might be worse than the disease, is now a global warming alarmist.  Ha!HT: . . . . Continue Reading »

A book based on presentations made two years or so ago at the Holocaust Museum of Houston has been released, by the name of Medicine After the Holocaust. I have a chapter on assisted suicide, which is a written version of my presentation at a public debate—link below—against Compassion . . . . Continue Reading »

Yesterday, I posted about a bioethics article that advocated dropping human intrinsic dignity as a fundamental premise to be applied in bioethical analyses.  This meme is profoundly dangerous to the medically vulnerable.  Moreover and alas, human unexceptionalism is the mainstream view in . . . . Continue Reading »

Shades of the Traci Latimer murder from Canada, now a  mother in the UK has apparently overdosed her disabled son with pure heroin.  And this, after she was out on bail from a previous attempt!  From the story:Ten days after Thomas was admitted to hospital, [Frances] Inglis approached . . . . Continue Reading »

An article in the journal Bioethics proposes dumping intrinsic human dignity as a basis for determining bioethical principles and policies.  But that would expose the most defenseless among us to the worst forms of exploitation, which the author, Alasdair Cochrane, acknowledges. From his . . . . Continue Reading »

A bioethicist named Alasdair Cochrane, who is, ironically, a deep thinker at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights in the UK, argues against intrinsic human dignity as a basis for establishing bioethical policies.  He attacks various theories that promote human dignity, e.g., “as . . . . Continue Reading »

I am certainly not opposed to transitioning from fossil fuels into renewable energy sources. But that will take decades, and in the meantime, we need to be sure our energy needs are met.I saw first hand the problem when California experienced power brown outs several years ago.  It helped bring . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the greatest threats to human exceptionalism comes from the ideology of people who work in the life and environmental science sector, who it seems, take every opportunity to subvert and undermine our self concept as the unique species in the known universe.  The latest example can be . . . . Continue Reading »

I was planning on commenting about the reported increase in Dutch euthanasia deaths. But the indefatigable Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (to the left of the old guy in the center as you look at the photo), beat me to it. From his blog:An article in the Dutch News has . . . . Continue Reading »