Wesley J. Smith

This remarkable video depicts a desperate fight between a crocodile, a pride of lions, and a herd of cape buffalo over the life of a calf. No “animal rights” here. No “right” not to suffer here. No “cruelty” here, either. This is the tooth and claw struggle of the . . . . Continue Reading »

An illustration of how modern names . . . . Continue Reading »

I just did a little research on where SHS’s 30,000 visits each month (and slowly going up) come from. Most, not surprisingly, come from the good ol’ USA. But I am very gratified to learn that people come here literally from all over the world. In the last month, f0r example, 583 visits . . . . Continue Reading »

An intrepid reader sent me this on-line syllabus from a bioethics course at the University of Washington Medical School. I checked on the link protocol and the author Nancy Jecker, Ph.D presumes that the right to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment already exists. From the syllabus:While you . . . . Continue Reading »

Biological colonialism (as I call it) is a real and growing international problem, in which rich Westerners pay destitute people for kidneys, the use of their wombs, and potentially coming soon to a poor country in Asia or Africa, for eggs to do mass human cloning. I have reported on some of the . . . . Continue Reading »

What is left of the NHS in the UK is continuing its awful meltdown. Now, the bureaucrats in charge intend radical surgery. From the story: Scores of hospital departments such as maternity units and cancer clinics will be closed or merged across the country under plans for a radical shake-up of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Why is assisted suicide always treated as if life were lived in a vacuum? Case in point: The suicide statistics in Washington are, according to a newspaper report “terrifying,” and yet, many newspapers editorially support legalizing assisted suicide—which at the very least sends a . . . . Continue Reading »

A hate crime against a plant! Why Garfield was banned in . . . . Continue Reading »

When the creators of Proposition 71 spent tens of millions buying a constitutional amendment in California to permit human cloning research, they promised CURES! CURES! CURES! And what are people spending hundreds of millions of dollars of borrowed money on? EXPENSIVE FANCY BUILDINGS! EXPENSIVE . . . . Continue Reading »

I just did an entry on a new Texas futile care lawsuit involving a girl named Sabrina Murray who was apparently threatened with a futile care termination by a Houston hospital, resulting now in litigation. But I had to reserve this entry for a quote from the author of the futile care law, Garnet . . . . Continue Reading »