Wesley J. Smith

I shouldn’t be surprised by anything the mainstream media does today in boosting social outlaws into cultural icons. For example, when Jack Kevorkian was at the top of his deadly game—even offering extracted kidneys from a disabled assisted suicide victim for transplant in a news . . . . Continue Reading »

As I often say, the culture of death brooks no dissent. Now, none other than the celebrated academic Stanley Fish—perhaps best known for promoting post modernism (although he says he is an anti foundationalist, and who cares anyway)—claims that doctors and nurses who don’t wish to . . . . Continue Reading »

This could be very dangerous to the health and safety of FBI agents and others: The radical North American Animal Liberation Press Office—run by Dr. Jerry Vlasak, who has yearned for the murder of animal researchers—has created a Web site containing photos of FBI Agents, animal rights . . . . Continue Reading »

Radical environmentalism is growing, I fear, and its activists are increasingly willing to act against the interests and needs of human beings. In the UK, more than a hundred people were arrested, charged with plotting to sabotage a power plant. Had their alleged plot succeeded, it could have left . . . . Continue Reading »

Radical environmentalism is growing, I fear, and its activists are increasingly willing to act against the interests and needs of human beings. In the UK, more than 100 people were arrested, charged with plotting to sabotage a power plant, which could have left tens of thousands of people without . . . . Continue Reading »

This is standard operating procedure in the MSM these days, but it is always worth pointing out: The media are so wildly biased on some issues, they report about them as if there were only one side to the debate. Assisted suicide is fast becoming one of those monochrome issues from which opposing . . . . Continue Reading »

George Bush was often accused of politicizing science. But his differences with the science sector generally involved ethics or policy differences, not hostility to empirical data. If science has been corrupted, the rot has come from within from scientists who blatantly publish ideological advocacy . . . . Continue Reading »

The CBC has produced and now released The Great Stem Cell Debate: Lines That Divide, a documentary that will soon be aired on television and perhaps in theaters. Jennifer Lahl, the CBC’s head, has worked her finger to the bones getting this film done and distributed. (Yes, I am in it.) I have . . . . Continue Reading »

George Bush was often accused of politicizing science. But the real truth is that science has been corrupted from within by too often slouching into blatant ideological advocacy or money-driven agendas. And here’s an unintended admission of that very point. The New York Times Magazine ran a . . . . Continue Reading »

This interview by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is frightening in its candor about how she apparently perceives her job as one of establishing “right” policy—which, in her case are of the Left Intellectual Elite—as opposed to interpreting and applying law as it was created by . . . . Continue Reading »