Wesley J. Smith

For years we have been told—and I sure used to believe—that the Canadians had the best approach to health care. Single payer funding, privately employed doctors—seemingly, a good mix. Except it’s not. From a column by Nadeem Esmail in yesterday’s Wall Street . . . . Continue Reading »

This is why people are so jaded and cynical about their own government. The economic stimulus bill that we are told is too important to really debate and must be passed NOW! NOW! NOW! contains sneak provisions opening the door to national health care. From a commentary by Betsy McCaughey: . . . . Continue Reading »

Eluana Englaro has died. From the story: Eluana Englaro, the 38-year-old comatose woman at the center of an Italian right-to-die case, died Monday night despite efforts by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to order doctors to feed her, the clinic said.She had been in a coma since a 1992 car crash. A . . . . Continue Reading »

For SHSers in Ireland or London, I will be on your side of the pond next week. I don’t have a fully detailed itinerary, but David Prentice and I will appear in either speech or debate formats at several Irish universities, including in Cork on the 17th, a university in Maynooth on the 18th, . . . . Continue Reading »

As Eluana Englar is being dehydrated to death, the Italian Parliament is debating a proposed law that would prohibit causing cognitively disabled people to die in this manner. From the story: Italian senators raced Monday to discuss a bill designed to keep a woman in vegetative state from having her . . . . Continue Reading »

Just last month, I reported about a cancer study that was found to have manipulated data. Now, according to the Sunday Times, a scientist cooked his data to create a seeming connection between autism and a vaccine. From the story: THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine . . . . Continue Reading »

I have posted on the Nadya Suleman matter and her having eight children via IVF. I have also done several radio interviews and have made the following points. First, this is an unregulated field and doctors can basically do just about whatever they like legally. Second, why should we be surprised? . . . . Continue Reading »

When the President of Italy refused to sign a decree delaying the dehydration death of Eluana Englaro—who some call the Italian Terri Schiavo—it seemed to seal her doom. But now the Prime Minister has moved up an emergency session of the Parliament.We’ll see how that plays out. But . . . . Continue Reading »

My kind of furniture!A look into the future unless the bias . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote yesterday about a terrible 2006 Florida case, in which an infant allegedly survived an attempted abortion only to be put in a medical waste bag by the owner of the clinic. The doctor didn’t show up in time—resulting in the live birth of a baby girl at 23 weeks. Well, today he . . . . Continue Reading »