Wesley J. Smith

I have concluded that too much money is being spent to pay for “scientific studies,” which after all, have to find something to report to earn their keep. This often leads to much confusion. Take for example a new study that looked into the life-course of women, reports that drinking . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been warning for some time that ideological advocacy often masks as objective scientific reporting—both in the media and the journals—allowing political activists to promote various agendas by bootstrapping their views to the widespread respect society has for the scientific . . . . Continue Reading »

It has been a very dispiriting experience to see how things are in the UK. The country’s leadership seems lost in a fog of relativism and intent to destroy many of the cultural attributes of society that made the country great.There is the Brave New Britain, oft written of here, of course. But . . . . Continue Reading »

After three rousing speeches and media appearances with David Prentice in Ireland on cloning and ESCR, I am off today over the Irish Sea to London, where I will speak Monday night in the Parliament Building about assisted suicide. Ahead of the event, I was asked by my sponsors to write a piece for . . . . Continue Reading »

The passage of assisted suicide in Washington is not yet causing a major revamping of the political field. Hawaii’s assisted suicide legislation looks like it isn’t going to make it this year. From the story: The Hawaii Legislature will not take up a proposal to allow assisted suicides . . . . Continue Reading »

In Japan, a woman underwent IVF and was implanted, seemingly a happy pregnancy. Then, things proved to be terribly wrong. From the story:A Japanese woman was likely impregnated with the fertilized egg of another woman by accident during an in vitro procedure last year, hospital officials said . . . . Continue Reading »

This story is disturbing and raises questions about whether the FDA’s license to Geron to conduct human embryonic stem cell experiments should be suspended pending further studies. In Israel, a child treated with fetal stem cells developed tumors four years after receiving fetal stem cell . . . . Continue Reading »

The culture of death brooks no dissent, I have repeatedly warned. That means the assisted suicide agenda, if it is widely successful, will one day seek to force all doctors to participate in the mercy killings of their patients—either by doing the deed personally, or referring them to a death . . . . Continue Reading »

Dennis Turner was treated for Parkinson’s disease with his own neural stem cells, taken from his brain, nearly ten years ago. He went into a significant remission that lasted for about four or five years before symptoms returned, that as I wrote in Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World, . . . . Continue Reading »

Pro lifers in the UK are seeking transparency—that’s the big new buzz word, isn’t it?— about eugenic abortion in the UK, and apparently the government is trying to squelch the news. From the story: They have accused officials of using restrictions that are more heavy-handed . . . . Continue Reading »