Wesley J. Smith

If iPSCs work, they will be better than ESCs because they will be made from the patient’s own cells, and hence, no tissue rejection. They will also be better than using cloned ES cells because they will be easier and less expensive to derive. They will be better than both therapeutic cloning . . . . Continue Reading »

Boy, let us hope this works out! Scientists have discovered that adult stem cells may be able to help restore memory lost to Alzheimer’s dementia. From the story:Researchers have shown for the first time that neural stem cells can rescue memory destroyed by advanced Alzheimer’s disease, . . . . Continue Reading »

Now this cartoon really hits close to SHS’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Puritanism is still with us: It’s just that the behaviors to be disdained have changed.Here’s an illustration: John Chiang, the California Treasurer, and Harold Goldstein, the executive director of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, have co-authored an opinion piece in the . . . . Continue Reading »

Politically correctness in the fight against AIDS costs lives.  The much touted Uganda success story that used ABC—abstinence, be faithful, and only then condoms—to reduce HIV infection rates dramatically, has backslid. Is the contrary CNN strategy—condoms, needle sharing, . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t think the Western media cover the catastrophe of African Aids nearly enough. And I think the lessons learned there are also ignored. First, when Uganda actively promoted ABC—abstinence, be faithful, but if if not those, use condoms—HIV infection rates plumetted. That makes . . . . Continue Reading »

Switzerland is Jack Kevorkian as a country, a fact that for some, is becoming an embarrassment. To try and put a modicum of control on the situation—in which non terminally ill Britons as well as people from other countries have flown to Switzerland so they can be brought home in the baggage . . . . Continue Reading »

Worries are being expressed in some quarters that the House health care reform bill would require senior citizens to receive a mandatory “Advance Care Planning Consultation” every five years, the intent being to push seniors into choosing an earlier death as a cost saving measure. But . . . . Continue Reading »

How can doctors support euthanasia in a country in which patients have to wait months, or even years, for urgent testing and medical treatments?  But ideology ignores all.  Apparently the Quebec College of Physicians intend to support a “limited” license for doctors to kill . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been alerted today that a Betsy McCoy claimed on the Fred Thompson radio show that there is a “mandatory counseling” session required for seniors in the House health care reform bill intended to induce them to make health care decisions that would end their lives sooner.  As . . . . Continue Reading »