Wesley J. Smith

It would be one thing if the NHS bureaucrats were delivering improved care. But for years now, under the general heading “NHS Meltdown,” I have chronicled failure after sometimes deadly failure of the socialized medical service to the people of the UK. But that hasn’t stopped . . . . Continue Reading »

Our latest episode of hypocrisy by those who are the most high strung over the predicted collapse of civilization due to “climate change,” (i.e., Al Gore taking limos and private jets), is our intrepid President Obama. He who is so concerned about carbon footprints and promoting . . . . Continue Reading »

Nicholas Kristof, the famous New York Times columnist, has weighed in on animal rights. Except he hasn’t. Animal rights is not the same thing as animal welfare— improving the humane treatment of animals, a good and noble cause. Rather, it is an ideology that equates human and animal . . . . Continue Reading »

I was shocked by this assisted suicide scene when Soylent Green first came out-in the early 1970s—and believe me, I was not alone. As the audience left the theater, we assured ourselves, “It can’t happen here.” How wrong we were. No one dreamed that less than 40 years later . . . . Continue Reading »

China’s one child policy has led to a terrible problem with sex selection abortion, leading to tens of millions fewere females than males, causing a crisis in gender distribution that threatens to undermine China’s stability. From the story:Selective sex abortion causes 32 million excess . . . . Continue Reading »

Dollars to donuts that Compassion and Choices brought this story to the reporter: Apparently a pancreatic cancer patient wanted assisted suicide and couldn’t find a doctor to do the deed. (Note how the story reporter, Laura Kate Zaichkin, blatantly employs the usual pro-assisted suicide . . . . Continue Reading »

I recently reported on the case of a baby in Canada, described in the media as dying, whose parents wanted her to be an organ donor. The non heart beating donor protocol was attempted, but the baby didn’t die, and so she was taken off the donor pool as is proper ethics in organ transplant . . . . Continue Reading »

Nicholas Kristof is a famous New York Times columnist who has now weighed in on animal rights. Except he hasn’t. Animal rights is not the same thing as animal welfare, e.g. improving the humane treatment of animals, a good and noble cause. Rather, it is an ideology that equates human and . . . . Continue Reading »

I cannot believe that a science advisor to the POTUS (President of the United States) would seriously suggest that we study creating an artificial volcano that shoots pollution high into the atmosphere in order to combat global warming. But apparently he has. From the story:The president’s new . . . . Continue Reading »

The current Texas Futile Care law is a disgrace, permitting star chamber ethics committees to force patients off of wanted life sustaining treatment, with family given a mere 10 days to find another hospital. This often proves impossible because these are expensive patients for which to care.The . . . . Continue Reading »