Wesley J. Smith

The New England Journal of Medicine, in addition to publishing important scientific and medical reports, is highly political.  It supports assisted suicide, for example, and even respectfully published the Groningen Protocol—the Dutch check list to determine which babies can be murdered . . . . Continue Reading »

With Amazon listing my upcoming book A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy for presale, I thought I should set up a blog solely devoted to the animal rights issue.  We discuss those matters here at SHS, of course, and will still.  But it is only one piece of the human . . . . Continue Reading »

What can only be called a fundamentalist wing has developed within the global warming movement.  One attribute of fundamentalism is a focus—and for some, an hysterical obsession—with end-of-the-world fear mongering, as in the warning just issued by “Nobel . . . . Continue Reading »

In the UK, assisted suicide advocates seek to redefine the practice as a necessity by making the claim that permitting it would actually lengthen lives.  How?  People wouldn’t “have” to do it so soon if they knew it was available when they were ready.  More details . . . . Continue Reading »

The economy has slowed the release of my upcoming  book criticizing the animal rights movement, but it is moving forward.  It is now listed on Amazon.  The title comes from PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk’s most famous quote: A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Environmentalism is changing.  It once was a distinctly humanistic movement, pushing conservation as a way of ensuring prosperity to our posterity, cleanup of pollution, protecting of habitats and endangered species, etc.—all certainly human duties arising from human exceptionalism. . . . . Continue Reading »

Sometimes I think this is where we are . . . . Continue Reading »

I am sorry for all of the people who have been participating in the interesting conversation about the murder of Dr. Tiller. The comments have been lost, but hopefully will be found.  I am told we should be completely out of the woods in this regard tomorrow.  We apologize for the . . . . Continue Reading »

Good news: The comment function is now working directly from the “comments” link at the bottom of the page. We are definitely almost through the . . . . Continue Reading »

Once again assisted suicide is being presented by its supporters as somehow a necessity. That being so, they argue, legalizing assisted suicide would extend rather than shorten lives. From the story:The ban on assisted suicideis forcing terminally ill people to cut their lives short, the House of . . . . Continue Reading »