Wesley J. Smith

The San Francisco Chronicle carries a helpful op/ed piece by two physicians to day on the mandatory counseling requirement in the Obamacare House bill by physician and USC School of Medicine professor emeritus Katherine Dowling Schlaerth. From her column:This current legislation...seeks to . . . . Continue Reading »

Smokette and I are listening to Dennis Miller on the radio—more accurately, on the computer—as is our AM wont. He just cracked a great joke about Obamacare’s plan to require seniors to receive reeducation camp indoctrination—er, mandatory counseling—every five . . . . Continue Reading »

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Obamacare will tax some unhealthy lifestyles.  Now, we should add users of sunbeds to the list. From the story:The International Agency for Research on Cancer announced Wednesday that it had elevated sunbeds, used by tens of millions of people for tanning, to its highest cancer risk . . . . Continue Reading »

A book is put together like a puzzle. The first piece is the proposal that gets you the gig. Then the research. Writing 80.000 words (in this case) comes next. Then editing. My upcoming book has passed these hurdles.We now have a rough of the book cover, reproduced on your left. This is not . . . . Continue Reading »

I reported earlier here at SHS about a published paper in which scientists claimed to have made sperm from embryonic stem cells. That paper has now been retracted. From the story:A paper that made international headlines earlier this month is causing headaches for its authors. Late last week several . . . . Continue Reading »

If Barbara Coombs Lee, the assisted suicide zealot who heads Compassion and Choices, is for something, run in the other direction as fast as you can! Lately, she has been opining about health care reform over at the Huffington Post—but what is amazing is that she seems to have forgotten things . . . . Continue Reading »

Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) vividly illustrated the recklessness and incompetence of our current government.  He said about those who ask that our elected representatives read the bill:I love these members, they get up and say, “Read the bill.” What good is reading the bill if . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote a few minutes ago of the  LA Times editorializing that new taxes be imposed on fattening foods to cut obesity and reduce health care costs.  It isn’t just lefty anonymous editorial writers. The head of the Center for Disease Control wants a tax on soda . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare hasn’t even started yet, and health care reform has those of the Leftist persuasion—read LA Times editorial—salivating—in this case literally—to tax fattening food to stop the fat from costing so many health care dollars. From the editorial:Key among . . . . Continue Reading »