Wesley J. Smith

Texas is ground zero for Futile Care Theory because of its pernicious law that permits ethics committees to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment over patient/family objections. Readers of SHS will recall that when such a decision is rendered, families have a mere 10 days to find alternative care, . . . . Continue Reading »

I found a linkable cite for the Swiss ethics committee report on the “dignity” of plants. So, I thought I’d put a few pithy quotes up that have not appeared in my discussion here at SHS about the study or in my Weekly Standard piece.Sometimes materialistic Darwinists will state . . . . Continue Reading »

My Weekly Standard piece, “The Silent Scream of the Asparagus,” on plant “dignity” piece is getting a lot of attention. For those in the Cincinnati area who may care to listen, I will be doing the Bill Cunningham Show on WLW (AM 700) at 9:15 Pacific . . . . Continue Reading »

For anyone up this early and/or who cares, my interview on America’s Newsroom on FNC about “plant rights” has been moved up ten minutes. I am mainlining coffee as I prepare—a plant product I might add—that not even the most utilitarian bioethicist would begrudge . . . . Continue Reading »

There is hope everywhere for people with spinal cord injury. We have dealt with adult stem cells and spinal cord injury in print and here at SHS several times previously. But this is very interesting. A paralyzed woman who broke her neck in a trampoline accident has been retrained to walk. From the . . . . Continue Reading »

I heard from FNC today about my “The Silent Scream of the Asparagus” Weekly Standard column. I am schedule to be interviewed tomorrow at 6:45 AM Pacific (yawn) . . . . Continue Reading »

SHS readers will recall my piece in the Weekly Standard about the Swiss creating “dignity” for plants. I am sure the creators of this parody (Arrogant Worms—Carrot Juice is Murder”) never thought their satire would be overtaken by actual . . . . Continue Reading »

When assisted suicide advocates try to sell the public on assisted suicide, they usually describe an eminently dying patient whose suffering cannot be palliated. But once it passes, we soon see that assisted suicide is used by people who have serious fears and concerns, but not untreatable pain.This . . . . Continue Reading »

Doctors and bioethicists have been mulling how to triage care if the deep ecologists receive the deepest yearning of their hearts and the human race is stricken with a deadly pandemic. In such a case, priorities of care will have to be set, but there is cause for worry that the latest report . . . . Continue Reading »

Why the transhumanist technological breakthrough—known as the “singularity”—will never come:Lio proves there may be something to genetic . . . . Continue Reading »