Wesley J. Smith

This could be bad. Cass R. Sunstein, just appointed by President Obama to be “regulatory czar,” is a big “quality of life” guy in determining the cost/benefit ratio of government regulations. This is the executive summary of a paper he wrote back in 2003 for the Joint Center . . . . Continue Reading »

Dolly the sheep was cloned because the administrator Ian Wilmut, and the team that did the deed, hoped to create a herd of genetically altered sheep through cloning and inserting human genes that would result in the sheep producing milk containing properties that could be extracted and turned into . . . . Continue Reading »

This says a lot that is wrong at our universities—where social outlaws are celebrated and given huge speaking fees—and with the murderer Jack Kevorkian. At his recent speech at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, he had an American flag behind him with the Swastika in the field of . . . . Continue Reading »

We have discussed the case of Eluana Englaro, who has been unconscious since an auto accident in 1992. Her father won a court order to remove her feeding tube. But for awhile, all hospitals and nursing homes refuse to participate in her dehydration. Mr. Englaro then found a facility that would, but . . . . Continue Reading »

This is an awful, awful story: The photo at left is of a 22-week prematurely born infant. According to the AP—no pro life outlet—a more developed infant survived a late term abortion in Florida only to be put in a plastic bag and thrown out by a staffer at the abortion clinic. From the . . . . Continue Reading »

I have written about this before—the phenomenon of political or ideological advocacy masking as objective scientific studies and then published in prestigious medical and other professional journals. (So have others who I admire.) Ironically, in the post I link above, I quoted an article . . . . Continue Reading »

Japan’s system of health care boasts of universal coverage and free screenings. But there seems to be trouble brewing in the Land of the Rising Sun exemplified by the tragedy of a patient with serious head injuries dying after he was refused care by 14 hospitals because there was no room for . . . . Continue Reading »

Yet another media biggie has written an article about the crisis in newspapers—which is all too real—and missed a huge reason for the problem. There must be a template circulating for these kind of articles, because it reflects the media’s notorious “group-think” by . . . . Continue Reading »

A San Francisco man named John West has alerted the media—in a book—that he helped his parents commit suicide. From the story: For attorney and author John West, his parents were lifelong sources of comfort, wisdom and pride. But West has been keeping a 10-year-old secret about his . . . . Continue Reading »

Can you imagine? A New Jersey man named Jesse Coltrane was communicating on-line with a friend in California when he found out the young man was apparently killing himself. Instead of respecting his friend’s autonomy, he became judgmental and interfered! From the story:During an online . . . . Continue Reading »