Wesley J. Smith

I am sure that Sarah Palin’s feelings are very hurt that the total animal rights crackpot Brigitte Bardot doesn’t like her and calls here a disgrace to women. From the story:“By denying the responsibility of man in global warming, by advocating gun rights and making statements that . . . . Continue Reading »

The ALF wing of the animal rights movement always wants it both ways. They want to be able to coerce, intimidate, threaten, bomb, vandalize, scare children, terrorize families, trespass, and commit other acts of bullying—and they presume themselves to be walking in the shoes of Gandhi and . . . . Continue Reading »

This is the kind of “science” story that drives me crazy. A scientist hypothesizes that “human evolution is over”—and it is taken seriously. From the story:Human evolution is grinding to a halt because of a shortage of older fathers in the West, according to a leading . . . . Continue Reading »

As I write these words, the stock markets around the world are tanking in the wake of a nearly trillion dollar bailout that the experts designed to prevent this very collapse. Oops.Financial issues are not what we do here, but I think there is an aspect of the financial crisis . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, this could be very interesting—or awful. Apparently CBS has a new series starting next week called The Eleventh Hour. And it seems to cover many of the issues we discuss here at SHS. From the PR Internet site: Humankind has survived devastation: Famine. Plague. Predators. Insects. . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been warning here at SHS and in my other writings, that some bioethicists and organ transplant physicians want societal license to kill patients for their organs. Now, thanks to Will Saletan writing in the Washington Post, the MSM is finally noticing. From Saletan’s column:Robert Truog, . . . . Continue Reading »

Rita Marker, the head of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide knows more about the politics and facts of the facilitated death agenda than anyone else on earth. In this “open letter” to Baroness Warnock, who SHS readers will recall recently renewed her call for . . . . Continue Reading »

Why Peter Singer finally conceded that pigs aren’t . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the most radical alterations in the self definition of humankind has just occurred in Ecuador and the world snoozes. But the radical environmental movement sees what is happening and is cheering. From a Global Exchange press release: Today, the people of Ecuador voted to recognize the . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a piece in today’s San Francisco Chronicle lambasting California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for “Kowtowing to Big Biotech”(the paper’s headline that isn’t in the online version.) I have had a burr in my behind about my governor ever since he endorsed Proposition . . . . Continue Reading »