Wesley J. Smith

The other day, President Obama referenced the Netherlands as a splendid example of how the “public option,” that is a government plan, worked well with a private system. To The Source contacted me and asked me to reflect on the president’s use of that particular example.First, the . . . . Continue Reading »

For all of the talk about ESCR and therapeutic cloning, in just two short years, induced pluripotent stem cells are already achieving what remains only a theoretical possibility in ethically problematic approaches: Tailor made, disease specific, stem cell lines have been created which are being used . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama gave humankind a huge promotion the other day, claiming a partnership with God. Hubristic? Yes, and clueless about matters theological.  More over at Secondhand Smoke . . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter Singer is the most popular bioethicist around for the “in crowd” of the MSM.  The New York Times loves him, often offering him its coveted pages within which to engage in punditry, for example in support of medically mutilating a profound disabled girl so she . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama said something yesterday that, given the brouhaha over death panels and health care rationing, might not have been prudent.  From the story:A reader points out that President Obama’s call with the rabbis today — as recorded in Rabbi Jack Moline’s and other . . . . Continue Reading »

The civil libertarian Nat Hentoff is no right winger.  He used to write for the Village Voice and has long been one of the country’s most noted civil libertarians, most recently adamantly opposing President George W. Bush’s policies in what used to be called the War on Terror. But . . . . Continue Reading »

Ten days ago I was contacted to see if I would come to Kentucky to participate in a citizen-generated town hall meeting about Obamacare that was being hastily organized by the wives of two Louisville physicians.  Arrangements were agreed upon for me to keynote after presentations were made by . . . . Continue Reading »

Human exceptionalism is under bitter attack on many fronts, one of which is radical environmentalists. One such fellow writes in the Guardian that human exceptionalism is leading to apocalypse, the only response to which is a “negotiated” surrender to poverty and dislocation. . . . . Continue Reading »

There are no approved human studies for embryonic stem cell regenerative medical trials. The only one ever approved—a spinal cord treatment by Geron Corp.—has been delayed again by the FDA.  More over at Secondhand Smoke . . . . . Continue Reading »

For years, Geron has bragged that “next year” it would be permitted to conduct human ESCR trials on people with newly acquired spinal cord injuries. And for years, that promise has been like the check in the mail that never comes.  Finally, this summer, Geron was permitted to . . . . Continue Reading »