Wesley J. Smith

I always hate to discuss PETA, but once again it has thrown truth and integrity to the wind with a billboard falsely linking milk drinking and autism. From the story: A new PETA-sponsored “go vegan” campaign billboard in Newark, N.J., includes the phrase “Studies have shown a link . . . . Continue Reading »

Why Dusty the retired cowboy continues to be PETA’s public enemy number one:When prodigies go to medical . . . . Continue Reading »

Readers of SHS will recall the tragic tale of Haleigh Poutre, beaten nearly to death by her adoptive parents and consigned quickly to death by dehydration by doctors who swore she would never awaken only ten days post injury, the Department of Social Services that decided her life was thus of too . . . . Continue Reading »

The bioethicist Art Caplan has argued against a court order requiring prison authorities to force feed a prisoner named William Coleman, who is on a hunger strike. It is against his autonomy, Caplan opines. From his column: Recently, he took a turn for the worse. Prison officials, fearing for his . . . . Continue Reading »

The Washington State Medical Association has come out against legalizing assisted suicide and passing I 1000. From its brochure:This fall Washington voters must decide whether to support or oppose Initiative 1000. It may help to know that the Washington State Medical Association strongly opposes . . . . Continue Reading »

Martin Sheen—known to be a left handed hitter politically—has a radio ad out against the assisted suicide legalization initiative, I-1000. This is important because despite the broad and diverse coalition against legalizing assisted suicide that cuts diagonally across the nation’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Arnold Schwarzenegger, who alas is my governor, was elected to produce fiscal responsibility in California. Well, that didn’t work out: This year alone, we are about $17 billion in the hole and counting.That aside, Schwarzenneger first violated his fiscal responsibility raison d’ etre . . . . Continue Reading »

The picture above, if it were taken in Ecuador, would be the image of a rights-bearing entity, with constitutional rights co-equal with those of “people” and “persons.” Yes, as expected, the people of Ecuador have passed their new constitution, which as I wrote in an earlier . . . . Continue Reading »

Standing up for human exceptionalism means fighting slavery and other forms of naked human exploitation. In this regard, Peter Hitchens, the UK writer, has a very disturbing piece out about how the Chinese are exploiting the poorest in Africa in what can charitably be called a new colonialism, and . . . . Continue Reading »

In a human trial using patients’ own bone marrow adult stem cells, alcohol-caused cirrhosis of the liver has been treated and the patients improved. From the story: All patients tolerated the procedure well and over 12 weeks of follow-up there were significant decreases in serum bilirubin. A . . . . Continue Reading »