Wesley J. Smith

Some observers criticized the Obama Administration for trying to intimidate the Supreme Court after the Solicitor General’s apparently disastrous oral argument in favor of the law. Supposedly, the people would rise up in fury if the Supremes dared interfere with the carefully . . . . Continue Reading »

In a world in which all people are valued equally, testing the entire genome of a gestating fetus would be a splendid way to allow parents to prepare to care for a child born with special needs.  Alas, and to an increasing degree, our culture is one in which entitlement rules—including . . . . Continue Reading »

Planned Parenthood will be able to provide medical services to teenagers on a high school campus in LA. From the CBS2 story:Planned Parenthood and the Los Angeles Unified School District have teamed up in an unusual collaboration to reduce the number of unplanned teen pregnancies at Roosevelt High . . . . Continue Reading »

The “Last Moment Robot” has been created to be your companion as you shuffle off this mortal coil. From the CNET story:As a woman lies on a mattress on the floor, a small white machine attached to her outstretched right arm offers the following words:I am the Last Moment Robot. I am here . . . . Continue Reading »

The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) is one of the major transhumanist Websites.  The writers there really take the nonsense of uploading minds into computers and fashioning a post humanity seriously.I have opined often that transhumanism is a religion, that is, . . . . Continue Reading »

Legatus Magazine asked me to write a reflection on the current state of environmentalism.  Alas, and to an increasing extent, it is rife with misanthrope. From, “Anti Humanism Subverts Environmental Movement.”Environmentalism has done so much good — conservation, our national . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s how the pro embryonic stem cell/human cloning advocacy game is played. First, the public faces of patients and their loved ones promise CURES! CURES! CURES! Then, when you call the campaign on the mendacity, they claim, “The scientists have never said that in . . . . Continue Reading »

I know Nat Hentoff. Nat Hentoff is a friend of mine. And Wesley, you are no Nat Hentoff.No kidding, Wesley!  But I was heartened to read an article exposing the profound intolerance of many on the Left against one of their own because he became pro life. It tells how Nat—who . . . . Continue Reading »

The global warming hysterics like to use selective dating of data and times for measuring and contrasting to make things look hotter than they were. Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, for example, omitted data about the time he was in office.  Now, it looks as if evidence has been discovered . . . . Continue Reading »

Why should we believe anything the Medical Establishment tells us anymore?  For years we have been told, screen for cancer, get annual physicals, wellness exams, pap smears, etc. beyond etc.—that’s the ticket to better health and lower healthcare costs.Then, we had the move to . . . . Continue Reading »