Wesley J. Smith

As regular readers of SHS know, I am appalled by the terroristic assault on intellectual freedom and the rule of law by animal rights thugs against medical researchers. Delusionally thinking themselves akin to Gandhi and Martin Luther King, these nihilists commit arson, burglary, theft, blackmail, . . . . Continue Reading »

Hit this link to view a video presentation is by Calla Papademus, a young Stanford student who donated her eggs for a fertility treatment and suffered some serious health consequences. From an earlier story about her ordeal: For eight weeks last fall, Calla Papademas, a 22-year-old Stanford . . . . Continue Reading »

I was contacted over the weekend by the BBC. A radio program was dealing with the lawsuit being brought by Debbie Purdy to allow her assisted suicide. Purdy has MS and wants her husband to be able to take her to Switzerland for assisted suicide. But since he is not a citizen, she fears there could . . . . Continue Reading »

The myopia! In their misguided drive to squeeze every possible drop of profit from health care financing, health insurance companies are sealing their own doom with policies that restrict access to coverage. The latest comes from the American Medical News that reports companies intend to shrink . . . . Continue Reading »

I can hear the sound of the cash register: The Brit tabloids—aided greatly by Drudge and a more than willing pregnant transsexual Thomans Beatie—continue the PR blitz of the female pregnant man who is soon to give birth (in only 4 weeks!!!). See the bare-skinned pictures!!! They want . . . . Continue Reading »

Any health insurance reform that seeks to maintain a private system will have to stop the companies from cherry picking their applicants. Otherwise stories such as this will drive the American people into the arms of a single payer or other form of public health care system: When the Golden Rule . . . . Continue Reading »

This report is a bit vague but apparently there is a futile care case in Alaska with lawyers with the Alliance Defense Fund preventing the hospital from forcibly removing a patient from care. From the World Net Daily report: The Alaska Supreme Court has granted a motion sought by an attorney working . . . . Continue Reading »

This could be the early stages of some very good news for Parkinson’s patients. Two years ago SHS readers learned that human paralyzed spinal cord injury patients have had feeling restored with their own nasal mucosa stem cells—a story utterly ignored by an MSM that would have shouted . . . . Continue Reading »

An article has been published in the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) entitled “Bioethics Crisis Looms Unless NIH Changes Course, Critics Warn,” byline Richard Monastersky. Bioethics crisis? Apparently, practitioners believe we need more bioethicists to tell us what . . . . Continue Reading »

I love taking photographs, and I took some nice ones (if I don’t say so myself) on my recent cruise. Here is a sampling:Jet lagged at 4 in the morning, I had a mirrored elevator all to myself. Fun ensued.Dawn on the Baltic.An Estonian convent destroyed by Ivan the TerribleSt. Petersburg: the . . . . Continue Reading »