Wesley J. Smith

A new drug that will soon be requested for approval to the FDA appears to delay serious symptoms and perhaps, extends the lives of women with breast cancer. From the NYT story:T-DM1 delayed the worsening of disease by about three months. For those who received T-DM1, the median time before the . . . . Continue Reading »

I think there is more to this story than an eye roll. Delusional or paranoid people used to insist they were Napoleon or Jesus Christ, or perhaps that the CIA or space aliens had implanted electrodes in their fillings to track their every move. Now, apparently, these mental illnesses are playing out . . . . Continue Reading »

Here we go again! The push to transform the most ill and disabled living human bodies into so many organ farms continues among some bioethicists and within organ transplant ethical discourse. Now, an article in the American Journal of Bioethics, written by organ . . . . Continue Reading »

The political left just does not get the concept of “death panels,” and/or intentionally conflate it with ethical approaches to refusing treatment in order to confuse people for political purposes.  This is clear from a Time summary of Joe Klein’s cover story . . . . Continue Reading »

Those who oppose animal research have to defend against this kind of very hopeful experimentation. Scientists have restored feeling in paralyzed rats using electrical and chemical stimulation of injurd spinal cords. From the MSNBC story:Scientists in Switzerland have restored full movement to rats . . . . Continue Reading »

A new Obama campaign ad, Dreams of Our Daughters—get it, a take off of Obama’s bio, Dreams From My Father—depicts a mother with two daughters going through a happy day.  (It is amazing how men barely exist in Obamaland, but I digress.)  The Mom speaks about her . . . . Continue Reading »

Live Action strikes again.  A New York PP counselor is told that the client wants to abort a girl.  The PP representative is cooperative, non judgmental, and professionally aloof.  I embedded this example above, because unlike the last video released, it contains the . . . . Continue Reading »

We discussed this legislation earlier, but I think there is more to add. Legislation in New Jersey would legalize commercial gestational carriage, as dehumanizing a term for a woman carrying a baby this side of “human brood mare.” From The Record story:Supporters argue that these . . . . Continue Reading »

Big news on the tomato front: They have more genes than human beings! From the NYT story:The tomato, whose genome has just now been decoded, turns out to be one well-endowed vegetable, possessing 31,760 genes. This rich legacy, possibly a reflection of the disaster that killed . . . . Continue Reading »

At the height of the great Embryonic Stem Cell Hype, Hwang Woo-suk fraudulently claimed to have created human cloned embryos and derived stem cells therefrom. He paid a price in reputation but not his freedom, despite obtaining research grants under false pretenses. Now, another Korean stem . . . . Continue Reading »