Wesley J. Smith

The New York Times—of course!—ran a piece in its Sunday opinion section (originally a blog) by a university professor—of course!—claiming that we are unethical in our eating of plants. Apparently, Michael Marder agrees with the Swiss, which a few years ago accorded legal . . . . Continue Reading »

Beware. The government is hatching new ways to intrude into our lives, this time, to measure our happiness.  Beware! That is an open ended invitation to intrusive bureaucracy.To warn my fellow citizens of the insidiousness of this seemingly benign initiative, I took to the Weekly . . . . Continue Reading »

I can only shake my head.  Some scientists and bioethicists insist that human behavior, being that we are supposedly mere meat machines, can be reduced to the sum of our biological and chemical interactions.  Figure out how those work and it just becomes math—we can . . . . Continue Reading »

More on the” crises of competence and character” (as I call it) that has infected science—along with general society—as the West increasingly turns its back on what made it great and heads in a decidedly decadent direction.  A UK scientist, now in the . . . . Continue Reading »

I edit a newsletter published by the Discovery Institute called The Human Exceptionalist. The point of the work is to illustrate the many and varied issues in which human exceptionalism is either relevant, or more often, under attack.  I write an introductory letter for each edition and excerpt . . . . Continue Reading »

The Obamacarians don’t care much about the U.S. Constitution.  Now, we have the Secretary of Health and Human Services admitting she didn’t even consider the constitutionality of imposing the “free birth control” rule, nor obtain a legal memo on the legal mandate . . . . Continue Reading »

Paul Ehrlich has been wrong about nearly everything, and yet, remains a prophetic voice for some. Tim Chivers takes him down a needed couple of notches in The Telegraph.  From, “Paul Ehrlich Still Prophesying Doom, and Still Wrong:”So, let’s take a look at some of his . . . . Continue Reading »

When I was young, I was in a car with friends driving past a large Veteran’s cemetery, and noting all the tombstones, sparked gales of ridiculing laughter when I exclaimed, “Wow, there sure are a lot of dead people in the world!”Knowledge of our own death is . . . . Continue Reading »

I think this is a step too far.  Canadian pediatricians are discharging patients whose parents refuse to permit inoculations. From the The Star story:Pediatricians in Canada are starting to discharge children whose parents refuse to have them vaccinated. More and more, doctors are taking a . . . . Continue Reading »

Surgical abortion is—surgery.  But now, a bill has been introduced in the California Legislature to allow non doctors to perform this life-taking surgery. From the San Francisco Chronicle report:As states across the country are passing laws to restrict access to abortion,  California . . . . Continue Reading »