Wesley J. Smith

This should really cause concern among the Al Gore acolytes: The BBC, of all media outlets, has noticed that global warming isn’t, well, warming.  From the story:This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 . . . . Continue Reading »

Hollywood loves assisted suicide and euthanasia. Not just as a plot device, but to promote through its various products as a modern, caring, compassionate, and proper policy for society to accept. Perhaps the most notable example was the Clint Eastwood movie Million Dollar Baby, that carried a . . . . Continue Reading »

Long time readers of SHS know that I am concerned about the the publication of supposedly objective scientific papers that are actually advocacy pieces intended to promote ideological or political agendas. This corrupts science, in my view, because it takes it out of the realm of searching for truth . . . . Continue Reading »

Now this is interesting.  Activity in the brain surges at the point of death. From the story : A study of seven terminally ill patients found identical surges in brain activity moments before death, providing what may be physiological evidence of “out of body” experiences reported by . . . . Continue Reading »

This is interesting: Scientists have discovered that activity in the brain surges at the point of death. From the story:A study of seven terminally ill patients found identical surges in brain activity moments before death, providing what may be physiological evidence of “out of body” . . . . Continue Reading »

A Democratic activist moved to Massachussets, where she expected to be covered by the state’s universal health care  program. Oops, it didn’t work out: She can’t afford the premiums.  In the process, she learned that Obamacare might not be the wise course that people of . . . . Continue Reading »

I wondered how the president induced Big Pharma to support Obamacare.  Now I know: The bills extend the exclusive right to market brand names for biological drugs to more than twice the time currently allowed before less expensive generics can come on line.Sad that the US media don’t . . . . Continue Reading »

Given the state of the world’s economy, perhaps the time has come to rein in the funding of stupid scientific studies to ensure that they are limited to really important matters.  I bring this up because some scientists claim that the pill has changed women’s taste in men away from . . . . Continue Reading »

Senator Baucus’s proposal for health care reform passed muster from the CBO. From the story:A compromise health care proposal widely seen as having the best chance to win Democratic and Republican support would cost $829 billion over the next 10 years, nonpartisan budget analysts concluded . . . . Continue Reading »

A few days ago, I posted excerpts from a piece I wrote for CNS News about the drive among some within the Medical Intelligentsia to redefine death so as to permit increased organ harvesting.  It went up, and then, mysteriously disappeared.  I have been asked about this repeatedly, and some . . . . Continue Reading »