Wesley J. Smith

As goes Rat, so goes the . . . . Continue Reading »

A new study has theorized that human beings are more closely related to orangutans than chimps.  Perhaps, but does it really matter—at least from a moral perspective? I say no.  I explain why over at Secondhand Smoke . . . . . Continue Reading »

A new study hypothesizes that human beings are more closely related to orangutans than to chimpanzees.  From the story:University of Pittsburgh and the Buffalo Museum of Science. Reporting in the June 18 edition of the Journal of Biogeography, the researchers reject as “problematic” . . . . Continue Reading »

When President Bush appointed Leon Kass to lead the President’s Council on Bioethics, the mainstream of the bioethics movement howled.  Kass believes in intrinsic human dignity—and that is anathema to the predominate view. “Stacked deck,” they screamed.  . . . . Continue Reading »

I recently wrote about the death of Jayne Murdock in Montana, who wanted assisted suicide but found no doctor willing to lethally prescribe.  I was and am pleased with that—which is not to say that I didn’t want her to receive the best of care, or course I did—because . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been warning this was coming, that the assurances from “the scientists” that eggs would not be commodified for cloning were false.  New York State is going to permit would-be human cloners up to $10,000 to conduct human cloning as part of its $600 million taxpayer funded . . . . Continue Reading »

Every time you turn around, scientists discover new and ethical sources of stem cells—now from fallopian tubes removed during hysterectomies.  From the story:Discarded fallopian tubes from hysterectomies could be a good source of donor stem cells, say researchers. Work shows . . . . Continue Reading »

Doctors everywhere should emulate the vast majority of physicians in Oregon, Washington, and now Montana, who refuse to participate or be complicit in assisted suicide. A woman with cancer who wanted to kill herself in Montana has died of her disease.  From the story:A Missoula woman, unable to . . . . Continue Reading »

As I approach my 60th, not funny:Har de har, . . . . Continue Reading »

The only way universal health care will have any chance of working financially is if it is modest, covering the basics and leaving the optionals to people’s own private decision making and budgets.  But the Left isn’t about freedom, it is about the raw exercise of power, hence, . . . . Continue Reading »