Wesley J. Smith

Smithsonian has an interview with the author of evolutionary anthropologist Christopher Boehm, author of a book called Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism and Shame. Boehm apparently researched the anthropological studies that have been published about all contemporary . . . . Continue Reading »

I have heard stories of dining on fetal tissue in China, but didn’t discuss it here because I wasn’t satisfied with the reliability and considered it most likely an urban myth. But this story seems solid. South Korean authorities have seized pills made up mostly of human fetal tissue. . . . . Continue Reading »

Our sense of entitlement—including not only to have a child, but the child we want—is driving us to ever greater extremes. The Daily Mail has a disturbing report about beautiful women selling eggs, rich men’s sperm, and paid destitute gestational carriers—you know, the . . . . Continue Reading »

SHSer Don Nelson emails me a quote from the May 4 Kiplinger Newsletter. (No link):A severe doctor shortage is looming: Over the next decade, a 45,000 deficit of primary care physicians and a similar lack of surgeons and specialists. Some specialties will decline, despite growing demand from an aging . . . . Continue Reading »

I reported here a few weeks ago that the NYT’s Dear Abby-type column, “The Ethicist,” was holding an essay contest to descsribe why eating meat is ethical—judged by Peter Singer—who I noted elsewhere, has no business judging anyone’s ethics—and other . . . . Continue Reading »

It is very tempting sometimes to fall back on the Nazi analogy.  And occasionally, there is a legitimate equivalence, as in the call for euthanizing disabled infants, which was not specifically a “Nazi” program but promoted enthusiastically by a German medical establishment that had . . . . Continue Reading »

This is the GWH’s gig: Economic downturn and even depression to “save the planet.”  A new study claims that an economic contraction equivalent to the Great Depression is needed to keep us real cool. From the Science Daily story:The study, conducted by José Tapia Granados . . . . Continue Reading »

Professor Michael-Don’t Eat-Your-Peas-Marder as a teenager:One of Obama’s new “happiness bureaucrats” on the . . . . Continue Reading »

An Oregon jury recently ruled that a child born with Down syndrome was wrongfully born because her mother would have destroyed her had the prenatal testing been properly performed.  Now, Bioedge reports about a similar case before the European Court of Law and Justice.Sigh.  Our ability to . . . . Continue Reading »

This satirical video tells some important truths about the stealth animal rights front group, the Humane Society of the United States (not to be confused with your local animal welfare human societies).  Funny—“We’re basically PETA, with suits and . . . . Continue Reading »