Wesley J. Smith

This is a cause that the social right and the political left, liberals and conservatives, and everyone in between can agree upon: Don’t permit human genes to be patented.  Genes are not human inventions.  Hence, they should not be subject to patent protection (as opposed, say, the . . . . Continue Reading »

“The scientists” continually assure us that biotech will be conducted ethically and with full control.  It isn’t now, in my view, but it may soon get worse. Under new rules about to go into effect in the UK, scientists will be able to create cloned human/animal hybrid cloned . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama’s selling skills are questionable.  He says things that aren’t true and acts as if we won’t be able to figure that out.  A minor case in point: On 60 Minutes tonight, he says that he will “own” Obamacare and be held politically accountable if . . . . Continue Reading »

A meme is taking hold on the left that opponents of President Obama can’t accept a black president.  But that’s baloney that has turned moldy. President Obama is being treated just like every other president has been by his (or someday, her) political opponents—very . . . . Continue Reading »

The gall of President Obama: He has played hide the ball on health care rationing, the funding of abortion under the public plan, and pretended that cutting fat and efficiencies can pay for the more than $1 trillion price tag for the the bill. He has claimed to support conscience clauses as he guts . . . . Continue Reading »

The UK continues to provide us with a vivid and terrifying education about the dangers of health care rationing. The UK”s central planners have urged that doctors make no efforts to save prematurely born babies under 22 weeks.  This don’t treat decree (because that is what . . . . Continue Reading »

Mark Pickup may very well be the finest man I have ever met.  He is good, decent, kind, honest even when it really hurts to be honest, and has an iron-willed integrity.  He also has a heart of golden mush.Mark was very caught up, as was I, in the terrible tragedy of the dehydration death . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been very gratified to have been asked repeatedly when my podcast, What It Means to Be Human, will be back.  I  had to suspend these recordings for awhile because of work load and then a tech meltdown.  Whew. But, I am happy to be back streaming and hope to have few . . . . Continue Reading »

Euthanasia deaths are going up in Belgium, now up to about 2% of all deaths in Flanders.  From the story:Cases of euthanasia in Belgium’s Flanders region soared to nearly 2 percent of all deaths in 2007 after the country legalized the practice a few years earlier, a medical study has . . . . Continue Reading »

Talk about lying about the bill: President Obama and the Democrats have repeatedly assured the country that Obamacare would not cover abortion and that, in any event, the Hyde Amendment would prevent federal funding.  Almost surely wrong on the first point and absolutely wrong . . . . Continue Reading »