Wesley J. Smith

Al Gore is a disgrace—now a very rich disgrace—but a disgrace, nonetheless.  If global warming is the crisis he claims, he should be debating all comers. He should face hostile questions and rebut them with facts. But he won’t.  Perhaps that’s because he is too . . . . Continue Reading »

I have detected a new bioethical thrust being trotted out among the would-be medical ruling class—that each of us have a duty to be experimented upon.  First it was President Obama’s bioethicist-in-chief Ezekien Emanuel.  Now a medical professor named Anthony Mathur in the UK . . . . Continue Reading »

I have my annual predictions for 2010 coming out in the CBC newsletter very soon—which I will link here. One of my predictions, already written, is the passage of Obamacare,  without the public option but with some form of non profit national private insurance exchange.  It looks . . . . Continue Reading »

A law permitting the execution of gays who have HIV is a very important human rights issue that Christians should engage in united opposition.  From the story : The Ugandan legislation in its current form would mandate a death sentence for active homosexuals living with HIV or in cases of . . . . Continue Reading »

Uganda is apparently contemplating imposing the death penalty on gay people with HIV.  Astonishing and brutally wrong, the imposition of a culture of death in that it uses killing as an acceptable answer to an issue of human suffering. From the story:The Ugandan legislation in its current form . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s some good adult stem cell news, that has been—as usual—underplayed in the media.  Blood stem cells can be engineered to target the HIV virus. From the story:Their study, published Monday in the-peer reviewed online journal PLoS ONE, provides proof-of-principle — . . . . Continue Reading »

The subtitle of my upcoming book, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy (taken from PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk’s most famous quote), is The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement.  That cost is both real and harmful, as evidenced by a story of important research on anthrax not being . . . . Continue Reading »

I have long believed that the hysteria over global warming is an elitist-driven madness, but madness with a purpose.  The end goal is rule by a scientocracy and drone bureaucracy that will gather power onto themselves, control the developed economies and lifestyles of individuals, as it stifles . . . . Continue Reading »

I have had great sympathy with the problem Obamacare has posed for people with disabilities. On one hand, many are terribly under-served by the health care system. On the other hand, I believe Obamacare will lead to explicit rationing of expensive patients, which will one day include people with . . . . Continue Reading »

Senator Harry Reid has stooped to a new low by comparing people who oppose Obamacare to defenders of slavery. From the story:...Reid argued that Republicans are using the same stalling tactics employed in the pre-Civil War era. “Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the . . . . Continue Reading »