Wesley J. Smith

In the UK, an adult stem cell trial using cadaver cells will begin seeking to cure blindness. From the story:[[A] two-year trial involving 20 patients with corneal blindness will begin this month at the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion in Edinburgh and the Gartnavel General Hospital in Glasgow. The . . . . Continue Reading »

SHSers may recall the awful death of Kerrie Wooltorton in the UK, who drank anti freeze as a suicide method and was let die because she had a note pinned to her clothes saying she didn’t want to be saved (even though she called the ambulance).A reader who has asked to remain anonymous sent me . . . . Continue Reading »

I think the punishment is woefully weak, but it is a rare case of a health facility (Bristol Hospital, Bristol, CT) being publicly sanctioned for withdrawing or refusing wanted life sustaining treatment. From the story:In one case, a woman who suffered a heart attack and congestive heart failure . . . . Continue Reading »

Uh, oh: Here it comes. Incoming Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Daschle wants to create a US Agency to control costs based on the UK’s Orwellian-named National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), which substantially controls the ethics and medical . . . . Continue Reading »

As regular SHSers know, I love non controversial biotechnology. Here’s another good example. If it works, it will be a case of life imitating, well not art exactly, but schlock.Scientists have invented a mini robot that might be injected into a stroke patient’s blood stream with which to . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the things I have come to understand about the euthanasia movement is that the law will never be loose enough to satiate the appetite of the ideologically committed for death on demand. As one example, when the Dutch formally legalized euthanasia, the very next day the Minister of Health . . . . Continue Reading »

The agitation to increase the pool of potential organ donors by allowing people who are unquestionably not dead, but who have profound cognitive disabilities, to be killed for their organs continues. An article in the American Medical News, primarily concerned with organ procurement after . . . . Continue Reading »

I am not sure what to make of this. According to a Politico writer, President Obama many not rescind President Bush’s embryonic stem cell funding executive order. He is going to leave it to the Congress. From the story:Obama pledged during the campaign to lift the restrictions, and political . . . . Continue Reading »

After seeing The Day the Earth Stood Still ten times, Rat throws the earth baby out with the human . . . . Continue Reading »

The coup de culture, as I have defined it, is the process by which the reigning cultural value system of human exceptionalism—which is itself founded in the moral philosophy of Judeo-Christianity/humanism— is being subverted and replaced by a new paradigm steeped in . . . . Continue Reading »