Wesley J. Smith

My colleague at the Discovery Institute, John R. Miller, has a piece in today’s New York Times on slavery. Slavery is an important matter impacting human exceptionalism that I have covered here at SHS, but not nearly enough. Thank goodness for Miller-whose work at the State Department on this . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t put much stock in studies such as this, but since animal rights activists are ever about the purported unhealthful nature of meat, it may be that tofu increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. From the story: Eating high levels of some soy products - including tofu - may raise . . . . Continue Reading »

Regular readers of SHS know that I am critical of the trend to let “the scientists” decide what is ethical and what our public policies should be. That not only subverts science by mutating it into an ideology or social movement rather than a method (scientism), but is nuts because . . . . Continue Reading »

Sigh: The NHS continues to collapse and I continue to report—but even I don’t post all the stories, striving as I do to keep SHS varied and interesting. But this can’t be overlooked: The NHS has been accused of “conveyor belt” childbirths. From the story:Women are . . . . Continue Reading »

The Boston Globe is reporting how far Haleigh Poutre has progressed since bioethicists, social workers, and courts decided to dehydrate her to death. From the story:Haleigh, now 14, has stayed for more than two years at Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton, where she is described as a . . . . Continue Reading »

For more than ten years I have been telling anyone who will listen that unquestionably conscious cognitively disabled patients are being denied sustenance in every state in this country—so long as no family member objects (and eventually, if futile care theory takes hold, it will be even if . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, this is rich! During the campaign for Proposition 71, proponents promised that Californians would reap a cornucopia of benefits from borrowing $3 billion over 10 years to pay researchers in private companies and their business partners in universities to conduct human cloning and ESCR. And, they . . . . Continue Reading »

The RAND report demonstrating that contrary to the warnings of some among the blank check crowd, the USA is not falling behind in scinece (which I referenced here at SHS) is now the subject of a Nature Medicine editorial (no link available). Despite years of moaning that the Bush Administration is . . . . Continue Reading »

Word engineering has always been intrinsic to the euthanasia movement. Always. Indeed, today mercy killing and euthanasia are synonyms thanks to the euthanasia movement of the late 19th Century. Before that, the term “good death” meant dying peacefully (and naturally) in a state of . . . . Continue Reading »

Readers of SHS will recall when the HPV vaccine first came out and with it, a great political push made by business interests and those of a certain cultural persuasion that expected (wanted?) teenage girls to be sexually active to require all girls to receive the vaccine. That effort stalled, and . . . . Continue Reading »