Wesley J. Smith

Reading bioethics literature is sometimes a challenging task. Bioethics-ese is replete with buzz words, such as “rich,” “robust,” “fruitful,” etc.  The verbiage often seems self-congratulatory and frequently masks some  hard-edged and very radical . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been cogitating on the hysterical condemnation yesterday by the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities against the “heinous form of intellectual violence” supposedly inflicted against bioethicists such as Ezekiel Emanuel by Obamacare critics.  Here’s the . . . . Continue Reading »

The more people read the House Bill—the prime Obamacare vehicle—the worse it gets. Now, in the name of health reform, all of our tax information will be made available to our health overseers. From the CBS story:Section 431(a) of the bill says that the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity . . . . Continue Reading »

The much vaunted—and now delayed—human trial for Geron’s ESCR product for acute spinal cord injury was stopped because the treatment caused cysts in animals.  From the story:Animals being tested using Geron Corporation’s treatment for spinal cord injury developed cysts . . . . Continue Reading »

The Bioethics Establishment are sure a thin skinned lot.  When my book Culture of Death came out, criticizing entirely mainstream views within the the bioethics movement, you should have heard the screaming. One bioethicist even wrote a review in a major bioethical journal asserting that the . . . . Continue Reading »

The pathetic defense of the NHS, mounted recently here and on the other side of the Pond to try and save Obamacare, continues to collapse.  Today, even more bad news came out about the appalling standards of care in the NHS.  From the story:One million NHS patients have been the victims of . . . . Continue Reading »

Perhaps embarrassed at becoming Jack Kevorkian as a country, where people fly in from all over the world to participate in “suicide tourism,” the Swiss in the Zurich area will have a chance to rein in their currently out-of-control assisted suicide free for all. From an ERGO (Derek . . . . Continue Reading »

Thousands of women in labor have been forced to give birth outside of safe hospital settings because of hospital overcrowding in the UK.  This seems highly relevant, given the forceful defense mounted of the NHS in the Obamacare debate.  More details over at Secondhand Smoke . . . . . Continue Reading »

Nat Hentoff is a First Amendment absolutist.  In his column today, he comes to the defense of the grass roots who have come out at the town halls to challenge Obamacare, and who are so scorned by the MSM.  From his column:Startlingly — and wholly involuntarily — President Obama . . . . Continue Reading »

I had a jaw-dropping moment the other week when UK officials lept to the NHS’s defense in an attempt to help Obamacare.  Longtime readers of SHS know that I have been detailing the many travesties of health care in the UK—such as patients being forced to wait hours in . . . . Continue Reading »