Wesley J. Smith

Interestingly, I did an interview with a Polish magazine today that dealt precisely with the problem of abandoning the elderly to the abuse of euthansia and medical neglect of “quality of life” refusals of treatment.The former leader of the Catholic Church in the UK, Cardinal Cormac . . . . Continue Reading »

I agree with Tom Hartsfield, a physics Ph.D. student writing in Real Clear Science, who writes that the National Science Foundation grants should be reserved for “science,” not “social science.” From, “NSF Should Stop Funding Social Science:” By forcing . . . . Continue Reading »

I have little sympathy for a lawsuit that has been filed against the California Transplant Donor Network. Apparently, it received consent from a family for limited organ retrieval, but may have gone further than the family wanted or agreed to. And now, in the unfortunate American tradition, they . . . . Continue Reading »

The Final Exit Network “counsels” suicidal people on how to kill themselves with helium and a plastic bag.  They also “attend” the suicides and apparently “clean up” afterwards so that investigators are unaware of the helium element in the deaths.This . . . . Continue Reading »

Anyone who is somewhat familiar with my work knows I defend human exeptionalism from distinctly non religious/theistic bases.  Some people disagree with me about HE, of course.  But some who accept HE disagree that it can be rationally defended, seeing religion as a necessary predicate to . . . . Continue Reading »

A BBC commenter and religious leftist named John Bell went on a sexist tirade that was remarkable in its vitriol. He makes a point that people will do in groups what they would never do as individuals, which has long been known as mob psychology. No argument there. But the . . . . Continue Reading »

I was pretty teed off about the Canadian doctors trying to force Hassan Rasouli off of wanted life-sustaining treatment. Then, when I found out that even though they were absolutely wrong in their “certainty” that he would never wake up, they still were considering trying to force . . . . Continue Reading »

What hubris. Shawn Lawrence Otto, of Science Friday on NPR, suggests that science has just outgrown democracy, don’t you know.  We need the experts to be in charge.Otto lists some of the outstanding benefits society has unquestionably received from science, and then more than suggests . . . . Continue Reading »

The Occupy orcs are back demanding free this and free that, while at the same time, seeking to destroy the very means and systems by which such services and wages could be paid.But for our purpose, the Occupiers want ecocide criminalized, so we can treat the earth as a living being and put . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh dear. Carl Elliot, a bioethics professor, has written a blistering critique of his own field in the Chronicles of Higher Education. Elliot is angry because Pfizer has created a fellowship in bioethics and has takers, which he views as fraternizing with the . . . . Continue Reading »