Wesley J. Smith

As President Obama pretends (weakly) that his health care reform plans won’t involve health care rationing, bioethicists are chomping at the bit to see it instituted. Last Sunday, Peter Singer had a long apology for health care rationing in the NYT Magazine . Now, Dan Brock urges rationing . . . . Continue Reading »

I used to be a supporter of a Canadian style single payer health care plan for the USA.  Then, I began spending time in Canadia and found out it doesn’t work well at all. This ad is effective, because from what I have seen, it is true.The woman’s name is Shona Holmes. She is suing . . . . Continue Reading »

Global warming may or may not exist—I suspect not, at least not of the earth-flooding-bake-caused-by-us kind—but the gas emissions from its advocates among the hyper-elites show that the real game afoot is massive income redistribution in the name of science. Latest example . . . . Continue Reading »

The last line of defense for some suicidal people is the dedicated mental health professional committed to helping their patient stay alive through profound darkness and pain. But a subversive movement within psychiatry, psychology, and social work holds that only “irrational” suicides . . . . Continue Reading »

I will be interviewed tomorrow on the nationally syndicated America’s Morning News radio show with Melanie Morgan and John McCaslin. I will be on at 5:30 AM Pacific Time, which is 8:30 AM in the East, 7:3o Central Time—well, you get the picture. Our topic: My piece in the Weekly Standard . . . . Continue Reading »

Much is apparently being made of Regina Benjamin, President Obama’s nominee for Surgeon General, being overweight.  From the story:[T]he full-figured African-American nominee is also under fire for being overweight in a nation where 34 percent of all Americans aged 20 and over are obese. . . . . Continue Reading »

Bioethicist Dan Brock—one of the radicals in a radical movement—pushes health care rationing over at the Hastings Center Report.  (To give you an idea about his views: In Children of Choice, a book he coauthored with two other bioethicists, Brock argued that the state has “a . . . . Continue Reading »

New animal studies show that pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), during which one cell is removed from an IVF-created embryo for eugenic testing, might not be safe for the babies who are allowed to be born.  More details available over at Secondhand Smoke . . . . . Continue Reading »

Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) is a procedure wherein one cell of an eight-celled embryo is removed and eugenically tested for defects, sex, appearance attributes—whatever the prospective parents wish to cull from their prospective families by discarding embryos that don’t . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the excellent aspects of the current American health care system is that most people can get immediate help if they become very ill. Not true in places like Canada or the UK, where waiting lines for crucial imaging tests can range in the several months—months that for cancer patients . . . . Continue Reading »