Wesley J. Smith

This blog does not get into the specifics of global warming, but it does discuss how science is being corrupted by politics—mostly from the left—transforming the method into an ideology sometimes called scientism. Thus, in the stem cell debate, clear biological definitions have been . . . . Continue Reading »

Cynical me believes that if this rule had come down when Bush was president, the media would have been all over it—although I am sure he wouldn’t have been aware of it any more than President Obama is. In a move geared to permit exploitation of the world’s most destitute people, . . . . Continue Reading »

Alfie Patten, the thirteen-year-old boy who made a such a big, hand-wringing splash in the UK by claiming to have fathered a child with his fifteen-year-old girlfriend—who was also sleeping with several other boys—turned out not to be the father after all. From the story : DNA tests have . . . . Continue Reading »

Can you find SHS in this clever cartoon? . . . . Continue Reading »

The media repeatedly pound home the false meme that assisted suicide is only about people diagnosed with a terminal illness. True, some American activists make that argument. But the “terminal illness limitation” is unquestionably the minority view within the movement.Case in point: On . . . . Continue Reading »

A Pew Poll measuring the “happiness” of the American people is out, and good news for me, people get happier as they age. But that is not why I brought it up. Rather, I was taken by the analysis of the poll presented by science writer Robert Roy Britt, Editorial Director of the on-line . . . . Continue Reading »

Alfie Patten, the 13-year-old boy who made a such a big, hand wringing splash in the UK by claiming to have fathered a child with his 15-year-old girlfriend—who was sleeping with a few other boys, as well—turned out not to be the father after all. From the story:DNA tests have revealed . . . . Continue Reading »

Reading about President Obama’s controversial speech at Notre Dame reminded of how adept our president is at saying one thing while doing just the opposite. He was at the top of his game in his commencement address, assuring his listeners, for example, that he respects pro-life medical . . . . Continue Reading »

The nihilism unleashed by Nietzsche has caused more harm and suffering than can ever be measured. It turns out that much of the themes of anti-human exceptionalism we see today come right out of his playbook. For example, last week I criticized a University of Wisconsin professor named Deborah Blum . . . . Continue Reading »

A poll has come out about the public’s attitudes toward organ donation that allegedly shows us as ignorant and unduly distrustful of the system. I think this requires a closer look. From the story “Lingering Myths Discourage Organ Donation”:Only 38% of licensed drivers have joined . . . . Continue Reading »