Wesley J. Smith

Even pigs seem to understand that meat is not . . . . Continue Reading »

Philip Nitschke is a hero of the assisted suicide movement and a strident advocate for unlimited suicide on demand. (All of you culture of death fans out there, don’t deny it: He’s always a star attraction at euthanasia conventions.) Toward that end, he spends his days creating suicide . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the most courageous and dedicated legislators I have ever met is Mary Pilcher Cook of Kansas. Mary came to my attention several years ago, when as a freshman in the Kansas House, she asked me out to testify in favor of a proposed cloning ban. (Through a lot of grit and persuasion, she got it . . . . Continue Reading »

The guts of the California back door assisted suicide bill, AB 2747, have been stripped from the bill, but it still has objectionable elements. The largest Latino civil rights organization has noticed and—true to its anti-euthanasia/assisted suicide values—has formally come out in . . . . Continue Reading »

I so often write about the deadly serious side of the animal rights movement—the threats to people—that I too often forget to point out some of the more jejune stunts that some advocates pull. Case in point: One animal rights activist wants to change the name of Homo sapiens. From his . . . . Continue Reading »

Secondhand Smokette, better known as Debra J. Saunders, has an excellent column in today’s San Francisco Chronicle castigating the animal rights terrorists who are attacking animal researchers. (I should point out that she was writing about the dangers of animal rights before I ever did.) From . . . . Continue Reading »

One Summer Johnson takes exception to my SHS post suggesting that egg selling be banned. (Whimper). From his entry:Somehow it seems unjust to me to ask women to undergo what all acknowledge to be a difficult, painful, and for some women risky process to donate eggs—whether for altruistic or . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a very good column in The Australian, that debunks global warming. But that is not why I bring it up, as we don’t discuss the ins and outs of that issue here. In “Climate Hysterics v Heretics in An Age of Unreason,” Arthur Herman shows how science devolves into . . . . Continue Reading »

This is what I wrote in Culture of Death (page 69, paperback version), which first came out in early 2001:The attitude that it is better to die than live cognitively disabled has triumphed so completely in our medical culture that some doctors now report a rush to write off newly unconscious . . . . Continue Reading »

The animal rights fanatics are getting closer and closer to killing somebody. In the most recent attacks, UC Santa Cruz researchers were the victims of firebombs. One was a car, the other was of a house—with people in residence! From the story:In the off-campus incident, a well-known molecular . . . . Continue Reading »