Wesley J. Smith

Misanthropy is all the rage these days, Daahling. We have the animal rights crowd and bioethicists disdaining human exceptionalism as “speciesist.” The Darwinists think species distinctions are really fiction since we all evolved out of the ooze.  The radical environmentalists take . . . . Continue Reading »

Whether or not global warming turns out to be more about cooked books than a cooked planet, it has exposed a cancer on the body of science that seeks to bar heterodox thinkers from having their work published in respectable journals. Very convenient. In that way, if someone has an idea you would . . . . Continue Reading »

Reason’s Ron Bailey is sure a sucker for futurism and transhumanism.  If there is a big conference about how we can all live forever, count on him to be there breathlessly reporting, which is ironic and paradoxical: Bailey usually claims the mantle of rationality and most of this stuff is . . . . Continue Reading »

So now the University of East Anglia, either the victim, perpetrator—or both—of Climategate, has done a “U-turn” and agreed to release raw data that it has heretofore fought assiduously to keep secret. From the story:Leading British scientists at the University of East . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, this is going to have to be studiously ignored at the upcoming confab in Copenhagen.  Apparently those Himalayan glaciers that are supposedly being devastated by global warming, may actually be doing just fine, thank you very much.  From the story:It has been reported worldwide that . . . . Continue Reading »

A lot of people seem emotionally invested in Rom Houben not actually being conscious. But all the evidence is on the other side.  Now, his doctor Steven Laureys is interviewed in the New Scientist about his diagnosis.  From the interview:Can you say what makes you so sure he is . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the e-mails in the Climategate scandal—yes, I still think the hackers should be prosecuted—vividly illustrates how badly ideology has corrupted too much of science. From a Wall Street Journal editorial:As anonymous reviewers of choice for certain journals, Mr. Mann & Co. had . . . . Continue Reading »

Sigh. Here we go again—maybe. When certain facts or developments in a story don’t support the line of reportage the MSM wants to pursue, too often, they simply resort to non journalism by omission, perhaps in the hope that their non coverage will make it go away.It appears that . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare-along with radical environmentalism—are ultimately about power and government grabbing control over the way we live our personal lives. A case in point tonight out of Sweden, where the head of the Swedish Welfare Board wants doctors to make patients quit smoking as a condition of . . . . Continue Reading »

The Dutch have the most wild and open euthanasia license in the world. And yet, it is never enough.  Now, the lawyer responsible for obtaining a Dutch Supreme Court ruling okaying assisted suicide for the mentally ill, wants psychiatrists to have to justify not killing their suicidal patients . . . . Continue Reading »